Publication: Search for a Resonance Decaying into WZ Boson Pairs in p(p)over-bar Collisions
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2010-02-12
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Amer Physical Soc
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We present the first search for an electrically charged resonance W' decaying to a WZ boson pair using 4.1 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron p (p) over bar collider. The WZ pairs are reconstructed through their decays into three charged leptons (l = e, mu). A total of 9 data events is observed in good agreement with the background prediction. We set 95% C.L. limits on the W'WZ coupling and on the W' production cross section multiplied by the branching fractions. We also exclude W' masses between 188 and 520 GeV within a simple extension of the standard model and set the most restrictive limits to date on low-scale technicolor models.
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Physical Review Letters. College Pk: Amer Physical Soc, v. 104, n. 6, 7 p., 2010.
