Published February 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Search for a new heavy gauge boson W' with event signature electron+missing transverse energy in pp collisions at √(s)=1.96 TeV

  • 1. Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki (Finland)
  • 2. Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC-University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander (Spain)
  • 3. University of Padova, I-35131 Padova (Italy)
  • 4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento, I-35131 Padova (Italy)
  • 5. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 (United States)

Description

We present a search for a new heavy charged vector boson W' decaying to an electron-neutrino pair in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data were collected with the CDF II detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.3 fb-1. No significant excess above the standard model expectation is observed and we set upper limits on σ·B(W'→eν). Assuming standard model couplings to fermions and the neutrino from the W' boson decay to be light, we exclude a W' boson with mass less than 1.12 TeV/c2 at the 95% confidence level.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 031102-031102.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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Notes
(c) 2011 American Institute of Physics
Collaborations
CDF Collaboration