Measurement of the transverse momentum differential cross-section for Z boson decays to muon anti-muon events in proton anti-proton collisions at center-of-mass energy = 1.8-TeV

Thesis/Dissertation · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2003

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1369292· OSTI ID:1369292

Krasberg, Mark T. ^[1]

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1. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)

In 1961 Sheldon Lee Glashow, while working on electroweak unification gauge theory, developed a model in which he introduced a massive neutral intermediate vector boson, call Z [1], [2], [3]. By 1967 Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam had independently solved the theoretical problems with this model and developed their own self-consistent theory. In this thesis the Z gauge boson production rate at CDF as a function of the Z transverse momentum is studied in the dimuon channel.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1369292
• Report Number(s): UMI-30-96132; FERMILAB-THESIS-2003-56; 636820
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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