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

  • D0 Collaboration
  • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Michigan State University
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
  • Columbia University
  • Rice University
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • DAPNIA/Service de Physique des Particules
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas
  • Northeastern University
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Iowa State University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Stony Brook University
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • University of Notre Dame
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • Brown University
  • University of Rochester
  • Panjab University
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Delhi
  • University of California at Riverside
  • Florida State University
  • University of California, Davis
  • Boston University
  • Universidad de los Andes Colombia
  • Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • University of California at Irvine
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • University of Arizona
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Texas AandM University
  • Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
  • University of Oklahoma Bioengineering Center
  • Korea University
  • Seoul National University
  • Purdue University
  • New York University
  • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Kyungsung University

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Abstract

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 WR ±→e±NR. Using the inclusive electron data, we set mass limits independent of the NR decay: mWR>650 GeV/c2 and mWR>720 GeV/c2 at the 95% confidence level, valid for mNR<1/2 mWR and mNR≪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 mWR valid for larger values of the NR mass are obtained assuming that NR decays to an electron and two jets.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3271-3276
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume76
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Apr 1996
Externally publishedYes

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