Measurement of σ(p(p)over-bar→Z)•Br(Z→ττ) at √s=1.96 TeV -: art. no. 072004

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作者
Abazov, VM [1 ]
Abbott, B
Abolins, M
Acharya, BS
Adams, M
Adams, T
Agelou, M
Agram, JL
Ahn, SH
Ahsan, M
Alexeev, GD
Alkhazov, G
Alton, A
Alverson, G
Alves, GA
Anastasoaie, M
Andeen, T
Anderson, S
Andrieu, B
Arnoud, Y
Askew, A
Åsman, B
Atramentov, O
Autermann, C
Avila, C
Badaud, F
Baden, A
Baldin, B
Balm, PW
Banerjee, S
Barberis, E
Bargassa, P
Baringer, P
Barnes, C
Barreto, J
Bartlett, JF
Bassler, U
Bauer, D
Bean, A
Beauceron, S
Begel, M
Bellavance, A
Beri, SB
Bernardi, G
Bertram, I
Besançon, M
Beuselinck, R
Bezzubov, VA
Bhat, PC
Bhatnagar, V
机构
[1] Joint Nucl Res Inst, Dubna, Russia
[2] Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[3] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[4] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bombay 400005, Maharashtra, India
[5] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[6] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[7] CEA Saclay, DAPNIA, Serv Phys Particules, Saclay, France
[8] Univ Louis Pasteur Strasbourg 1, IReS, IN2P3, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
[9] Univ Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France
[10] Korea Univ, Korea Detector Lab, Seoul 136701, South Korea
[11] Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[12] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[13] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[14] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[15] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[16] Univ Nijmegen, NIKHEF, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[17] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[18] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[19] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, IN2P3, CNRS, Paris, France
[20] Univ Paris 07, LPNHE, IN2P3, CNRS, Paris, France
[21] Univ Grenoble 1, Lab Phys Subatom & Cosmol, IN2P3, CNRS, Grenoble, France
[22] Rice Univ, Houston, TX 77005 USA
[23] Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden
[24] Royal Inst Technol, Stockholm, Sweden
[25] Stockholm Univ, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[26] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
[27] Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[28] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst A, D-5100 Aachen, Germany
[29] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[30] Univ Clermont Ferrand, Phys Corpusculaire Lab, IN2P3, CNRS, Clermont Ferrand, France
[31] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[32] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[33] FOM, Inst NIKHEF, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[34] Univ Amsterdam, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[35] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[36] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, London, England
[37] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[38] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[39] Univ Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[40] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[41] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster, England
[42] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[43] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[44] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[45] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[46] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, Freiburg, Germany
[47] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[48] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[49] Univ Texas, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
[50] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevD.71.072004
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of the cross section for Z production times the branching fraction to tau leptons, sigma.Br(Z ->tau(+)tau(-)), in p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV in the channel in which one tau decays into mu nu(mu)nu(tau), and the other into hadrons+nu(tau) or e nu(e)nu(tau). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 226 pb(-1) collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The final sample contains 2008 candidate events with an estimated background of 55%. From this we obtain sigma.Br(Z ->tau(+)tau(-)) = 237 +/- 15(stat)+/- 18(sys)+/- 15(lum)pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction.
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