Study of $WZ$ production with the DØ Detector
- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
In this Dissertation I present a detailed study of p$$\bar{p}$$ → WZ production using fully leptonic decays of W and Z bosons with electrons and muons in the final state. Data used for the study were collected by the DØ detector at the Fermilab p$$\bar{p}$$ collider with a center-of-mass energy of √s = 1.96 TeV and correspond to 4.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. The most precise measurement of the WZ production cross section is obtained and found to be in a good agreement with the standard model prediction. I also present a search for new phenomena in the WZ production by investigating the coupling between W and Z bosons and by searching for new charged particles that can decay into WZ boson pair. No evidence for new physics is found, and the most stringent limits are set on the anomalous WWZ coupling parameters and masses of charged resonances. This result also sets the stringest limit on one of the possible sources of electroweak symmetry breaking, a low-scale Technicolor with a typical heavy techni-pion hypothesis.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359
- OSTI ID:
- 986974
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-THESIS-2010-36; TRN: US1006638
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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