W,Z/sup 0/ production at the pp collider

Conference · Fri Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1982

OSTI ID:6835964

Bunce, G; Gordon, H A; Killian, T J; Murtagh, M J; Paige, F E; Tannenbaum, M J; Trueman, T L; Branson, J; Eisler, F; Grannis, P

We have examined some experimental questions relating to the production of W's and Z/sup 0/'s at a pp collider. To be specific we have considered a Colliding Beam Accelerator (CBA) with center of energy ..sqrt..s = 800 GeV and luminosity L = 10/sup 33/ cm/sup -2/ sec/sup -1/ (the standard BNL Isabelle (ISA) operating conditions). Most experiments should accumulate 10 sec of beam and therefore will have an integrated luminosity L = 10/sup 40/ cm/sup -2/. This corresponds to the production of millions of conventional charged W's per interaction region and gives the potential for high statistics studies of the properties of W's and for experiments searching for higher mass objects. Our focus has been on testing predictions of the standard model. We have concentrated on W production since it is likely the standard Z/sup 0/ will be observed in the near future. In most cases the W is detected via its semileptonic decay W ..-->.. l + nu. The specific topics considered are: W/sup + -/ production: pp ..-->.. W/sup + -/ + X, W/sup + -/ ..-->.. e/sup + -/ + nu, pp ..-->.. W/sup + -/ + ..gamma.. + X, polarization effects in W/sup + -/ production, and very high luminosity experiments.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA); Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA); College of Staten Island, NY (USA); State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6835964
• Report Number(s): BNL-32150; CONF-8206116-13; ON: DE83003595
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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