Search for a Resonance Decaying into WZ Boson Pairs in pp-bar Collisions
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Issue Date
2010-02-09Author
Baringer, Philip S.
Bean, Alice
Clutter, Justace Randall
McGivern, Carrie Lynne
Moulik, Tania
Sekaric, Jadranka
Wilson, Graham Wallace
Abazov, V. M.
Abbott, B.
Abolins, M.
Acharya, B. S.
Adams, M.
Publisher
American Physical Society
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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We present the first search for an electrically charged resonance W′ decaying to a WZ boson pair using 4.1 fb(−1) of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp-bar collider. The WZ pairs are reconstructed through their decays into three charged leptons (ℓ=e, μ). A total of 9 data events is observed in good agreement with the background prediction. We set 95% C.L. limits on the W′WZ coupling and on the W′ production cross section multiplied by the branching fractions. We also exclude W′ masses between 188 and 520 GeV within a simple extension of the standard model and set the most restrictive limits to date on low-scale technicolor models.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.061801.
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Citation
V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2010). "Search for a Resonance Decaying into WZ Boson Pairs in pp-bar Collisions." Physical Review Letters, 104(6):061801. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.061801.
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