SEARCH FOR HEAVY W-BOSONS IN 1.8 TEV P(P)OVER-BAR COLLISIONS

Journal article

A search for a heavy charged gauge boson, W′, using the decay channels W′ → eν and W′ → τν → eννν is reported. The data used in the analysis were collected by the DØ experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron during the 1992-93 pp collider run from an integrated luminosity of 13.9 ± 0.8 pb-1 at s=1.8 TeV. Assuming that the neutrino from W′ decay is stable and has a mass significantly less than mW′, an upper limit at the 95% confidence level is set on the cross section times branching ratio for pp → W′ → eν. A W′ with the same couplings to quarks and leptons as the standard model W boson is excluded for mW′ < 610 GeV/c2. © 1995.

Authors: Abachi, S; Abbott, B; Abolins, M; Acharya, B; Adam, I

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Physics Letters B
• Volume: 358
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 405-411
• Publication date: 1995-09-28
• DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01029-P
• ISSN: 0370-2693