Limits on the production of narrow t(t)over-bar resonances in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV

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作者
Aaltonen, T. [1 ,6 ]
Adelman, J. [15 ]
Akimoto, T. [61 ]
Albrow, M. G. [20 ]
Gonzalez, B. Alvarez [13 ]
Amerio, S. [49 ]
Amidei, D. [41 ]
Anastassov, A. [58 ]
Annovi, A. [22 ]
Antos, J. [16 ,17 ]
Aoki, M. [26 ]
Apollinari, G. [20 ]
Apresyan, A. [54 ]
Arisawa, T. [63 ]
Artikov, A. [18 ]
Ashmanskas, W. [20 ]
Attal, A. [4 ]
Aurisano, A. [59 ]
Azfar, F. [48 ]
Azzi-Bacchetta, P. [49 ]
Azzurri, P. [52 ]
Bacchetta, N. [49 ]
Badgett, W. [20 ]
Barbaro-Galtieri, A. [34 ]
Barnes, V. E. [54 ]
Barnett, B. A. [27 ]
Baroiant, S. [9 ]
Bartsch, V. [36 ]
Bauer, G. [38 ]
Beauchemin, P. -H. [39 ,40 ]
Bedeschi, F. [52 ]
Bednar, P. [16 ,17 ]
Behari, S. [27 ]
Bellettini, G. [52 ]
Bellinger, J. [65 ]
Belloni, A. [25 ]
Benjamin, D. [19 ]
Beretvas, A. [20 ]
Beringer, J. [34 ]
Berry, T. [35 ]
Bhatti, A. [56 ]
Binkley, M. [20 ]
Bisello, D. [49 ]
Bizjak, I. [36 ]
Blair, R. E. [3 ]
Blocker, C. [8 ]
Blumenfeld, B. [27 ]
Bocci, A. [19 ]
Bodek, A. [55 ]
Boisvert, V. [55 ]
机构
[1] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Div High Energy Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[2] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[3] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[5] Baylor Univ, Waco, TX 76798 USA
[6] Helsinki Inst Phys, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland
[7] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[8] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[9] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[10] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[11] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[12] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[13] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[14] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[15] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[16] Comenius Univ, Bratislava 84248, Slovakia
[17] Inst Expt Phys, Kosice 04001, Slovakia
[18] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[19] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[20] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[21] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[23] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
[24] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[25] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[26] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[27] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[28] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[29] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[30] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[31] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[32] Korea Inst Sci & Technol Informat, Taejon 305806, South Korea
[33] Chonnam Natl Univ, Kwangju 500757, South Korea
[34] Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[35] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[36] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[37] Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[38] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[39] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[40] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[41] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[42] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[43] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[44] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[45] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[46] Okayama Univ, Okayama 7008530, Japan
[47] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[48] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[49] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sezione Padova Trento, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[50] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, IN2P3, LPNHE, F-75252 Paris, France
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2008年 / 77卷 / 05期
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.051102
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We search for evidence of resonant top quark pair production in 955 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1: 96 TeV recorded with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. For fully reconstructed candidate t (t) over bar events triggered on leptons with large transverse momentum and containing at least one identified b-quark jet, we compare the invariant mass spectrum of t (t) over bar pairs to the expected superposition of standard model t (t) over bar, non-t (t) over bar backgrounds, and a simple resonance model based on a sequential Z' boson. We establish upper limits for sigma(p (p) over bar -> Z')center dot Br(Z' -> t (t) over bar) in the Z' mass interval from 450 GeV/c(2) to 900 GeV=c(2). A topcolor leptophobic Z' is ruled out below 720 GeV=c(2), and the cross section of any narrow Z'-like state decaying to t (t) over bar is found to be less than 0.64 pb at 95% C. L. for M-Z' above 700 GeV/c(2).
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