Search for the production of the standard model z boson in association with W± boson in proton anti-p collisions at 1.96 TeV center of mass energy
- Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
The search for the production of the Standard Model Z boson in association with a W boson is motivated and discussed. This is performed using 4.3 fb-1 of Tevatron Run II data collected with the CDF detector in √s = 1.96 TeV proton anti-proton collisions. This is a signature-based analysis where the W boson decays semileptonically into a high-PT electron or muon plus a neutrino, and where the Z boson decays into two b quark jets (b-jets). We increase the signal-to-background ratio by identifying the b-quarks in the jets with a new neural network-based algorithm. Another neural network then uses kinematic information to distinguish WZ to further increase the signal-to-background ratio. Since our sensitivity is still not enough to achieve an observation, we set a 95% Confidence Level upper limit on the product of the WZ production cross section and its branching fraction to the decay products specified above, and express it as a ratio to the theoretical Standard Model prediction. The resulting limit is 3.9 x SM (3.9 x SM expected).
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 985422
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS-2010-32; TRN: US1006203
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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