Search for a [Formula presented] Boson Decaying to a Top and Bottom Quark Pair in 1.8 TeV [Formula presented] Collisions
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
90
Journal Issue
8
Pages
6-
Date Issued
2003
Author(s)
Acosta, D. et al. (The CDF Collaboration)
Abstract
We report the results of a search for a W' boson produced in pp; collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 106 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We observe no significant excess of events above background for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair. In a model where this boson would mediate interactions involving a massive right-handed neutrino (nu(R)) and have standard model strength couplings, we use these data to exclude a W' boson with mass between 225 and 536 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')>>M(nu(R)) and between 225 and 566 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')
Type
journal article