Search for W' boson resonances decaying to a top quark and a bottom quark.

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We search for the production of a heavy W' gauge boson that decays to third generation quarks in 0.9 fb-1 of pp collisions at square root(s)=1.96 TeV, collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We find no significant excess in the final-state invariant mass distribution and set upper limits on the production cross section times branching fraction. For a left-handed W' boson with SM couplings, we set a lower mass limit of 731 GeV. For right-handed W' bosons, we set lower...

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Authors: Abazov, V; Abbott, B; Abolins, M; Acharya, B; Adams, M

• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 21
• Pages: 211803
• Publication date: 2008-05-01
• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.211803
• EISSN: 1079-7114
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• Language: English
• Keywords: D0 Collaboration