Search for right-handed w bosons and heavy W’ in pp¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

D0 Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3271

Search for right-handed w bosons and heavy W’ in pp¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

D0 Collaboration

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Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Michigan State University
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Columbia University
Rice University
University of Illinois at Chicago
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Centre d’Etudes de Saclay
Indiana University Bloomington
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
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Institute for High Energy Physics
University of Delhi
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Florida State University
University of California at Davis
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We report on a search for right-handed W bosons (WR) with mass greater than 200 GeV/c². We used data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp¯ collider at √s = 1.8 TeV to search for WR decays into an electron and a massive right-handed neutrino W_R ^±→e^±N_R. Using the inclusive electron data, we set mass limits independent of the NR decay: mW_R>650 GeV/c² and mWR>720 GeV/c² at the 95% confidence level, valid for mNR<1/2 mW_R and mN_R≪mWR, respectively. The latter also represents a new lower limit on the mass of a heavy left-handed W boson (W’) decaying into eν. In addition, limits on mW_R valid for larger values of the NR mass are obtained assuming that NR decays to an electron and two jets.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3271-3276
Number of pages	6
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	76
Issue number	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3271
State	Published - Apr 29 1996

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Search for right-handed w bosons and heavy W’ in pp¯ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV

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