Extraction of the width of the W boson from measurements of sigma(p(p)over-bar -> W+X) x B(W -> e nu) and sigma(p(p)over-bar -> Z+X) x B(Z -> ee) andtheir ratio - art. no. 072001

Authors
Abbott, B Abolins, M Abramov, V Acharya, BS Adam, I Adams, DL Adams, M Ahn, S Akimov, V Alves, GA Amos, N Anderson, EW Baarmand, MM Babintsev, VV Babukhadia, L Baden, A Baldin, B Banerjee, S Bantly, J Barberis, E Baringer, P Bartlett, JF Belyaev, A Beri, SB Bertram, I Bezzubov, VA Bhat, PC Bhatnagar, V Bhattacharjee, M Blazey, G Blessing, S Bloom, P Boehnlein, A Bojko, NI Borcherding, F Boswell, C Brandt, A Breedon, R Briskin, G Brock, R Bross, A Buchholz, D Burtovoi, VS Butler, JM Carvalho, W Casey, D Casilum, Z Castilla-Valdez, H Chakraborty, D Chekulaev, SV Chen, W Choi, S Chopra, S Choudhary, BC Christenson, JH Chung, M Claes, D Clark, AR Cobau, WG Cochran, J Coney, L Cooper, WE Coppage, D Cretsinger, C Cullen-Vidal, D Cummings, MAC Cutts, D Dahl, OI Davis, K De, K Del Signore, K Demarteau, M Denisov, D Denisov, SP Diehl, HT Diesburg, M Di Loreto, G Draper, P Ducros, Y Dudko, LV Dugad, SR Dyshkant, A Edmunds, D Ellison, J Elvira, VD Engelmann, R Eno, S Eppley, G Ermolov, P Eroshin, OV Evans, H Evdokimov, VN Fahland, T Fatyga, MK Feher, S Fein, D Ferbel, T Fisk, HE Fisyak, Y Flattum, E Forden, GE Fortner, M Frame, KC Fuess, S Gallas, E Galyaev, AN Gartung, P Gavrilov, V Geld, TL Genik, RJ Genser, K Gerber, CE Gershtein, Y Gibbard, B Gobbi, B Gomez, B Gomez, G Goncharov, PI Solis, JLG Gordon, H Goss, LT Gounder, K Goussiou, A Graf, N Grannis, PD Green, DR Green, JA Greenlee, H Grinstein, S Grudberg, P Grunendahl, S Guglielmo, G Guida, JA Guida, JM Gupta, A Gurzhiev, SN Gutierrez, G Gutierrez, P Hadley, NJ Haggerty, H Hagopian, S Hagopian, V Hahn, KS Hall, RE Hanlet, P Hansen, S Hauptman, JM Hays, C Hebert, C Hedin, D Heinson, AP Heintz, U Hernandez-Montoya, R Heuring, T Hirosky, R Hobbs, JD Hoeneisen, B Hoftun, JS Hsieh, F Hu, T Ito, AS Jerger, SA Jesik, R Joffe-Minor, T Johns, K Johnson, M Jonckheere, A Jones, M Jostlein, H Jun, SY Jung, CK Kahn, S Karmanov, D Karmgard, D Kehoe, R Kim, SK Klima, B Klopfenstein, C Knuteson, B Ko, W Kohli, JM Koltick, D Kostritskiy, AV Kotcher, J Kotwal, AV Kozelov, AV Kozlovsky, EA Krane, J Krishnaswamy, MR Krzywdzinski, S Kubantsev, M Kuleshov, S Kulik, Y Kunori, S Landry, F Landsberg, G Leflat, A Li, J Li, QZ Lima, JGR Lincoln, D Linn, SL Linnemann, J Lipton, R Lucotte, A Lueking, L Maciel, AKA Madaras, RJ Madden, R Magana-Mendoza, L Manankov, V Mani, S Mao, HS Markeloff, R Marshall, T Martin, MI Martin, RD Mauritz, KM May, B Mayorov, AA McCarthy, R McDonald, J McKibben, T McKinley, J McMahon, T Melanson, HL Merkin, M Merritt, KW Miao, C Miettinen, H Mincer, A Mishra, CS Mokhov, N Mondal, NK Montgomery, HE Mostafa, M da Motta, H Murphy, C Nang, F Narain, M Narasimham, VS Narayanan, A Neal, HA Negret, JP Nemethy, P Norman, D Oesch, L Oguri, V Oshima, N Owen, D Padley, P Para, A Parashar, N Park, YM Partridge, R Parua, N Paterno, M Pawlik, B Perkins, J Peters, M Piegaia, R Piekarz, H Pischalnikov, Y Pope, BG Prosper, HB Protopopescu, S Qian, J Quintas, PZ Raja, R Rajagopalan, S Ramirez, O Reay, NW Reucroft, S Rijssenbeek, H Rockwell, T Roco, M Rubinov, P Ruchti, R Rutherfoord, J Sanchez-Hernandez, A Santoro, A Sawyer, L Schamberger, RD Schellman, H Sculli, J Shabalina, E Shaffer, C Shankar, HC Shivpuri, RK Shpakov, D Shupe, M Sidwell, RA Singh, H Singh, JB Sirotenko, V Smith, E Smith, RP Snihur, R Snow, GR Snow, J Snyder, S Solomon, J Sosebee, M Sotnikova, N Souza, M Stanton, NR Steinbruck, G Stephens, RW Stevenson, ML Stichelbaut, F Stoker, D Stolin, V Stoyanova, DA Strauss, M Streets, K Strovink, M Sznajder, A Tamburello, P Tarazi, J Tartaglia, M Thomas, TLT Thompson, J Toback, D Trippe, TG Tuts, PM Vaniev, V Varelas, N Varnes, EW Volkov, AA Vorobiev, AP Wahl, HD Warchol, J Watts, G Wayne, M Weerts, H White, A White, JT Wightman, JA Willis, S Wimpenny, SJ Wirjawan, JVD Womersley, J Wood, DR Yamada, R Yamin, P Yasuda, T Yepes, P Yip, K Yoshikawa, C Youssef, S Yu, J Yu, Y Zhou, Z Zhu, ZH Zielinski, M Zieminska, D Zieminski, A Zutshi, V Zverev, EG Zylberstejn, A
Citation
B. Abbott et al., Extraction of the width of the W boson from measurements of sigma(p(p)over-bar -> W+X) x B(W -> e nu) and sigma(p(p)over-bar -> Z+X) x B(Z -> ee) andtheir ratio - art. no. 072001, PHYS REV D, 6107(7), 2000, pp. 2001
Citations number
77
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
05562821 → ACNP
Volume
6107
Issue
7
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20000401)6107:7<2001:EOTWOT>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
We report on measurements on inclusive cross sections times branching fract ions into electrons for W and Z bosons produced in p (p) over bar collision s at root s = 1.8 TeV. From an integrated luminosity of 84.5 pb(-1) recorde d in 1994-1995 using the D empty set detector at the Fermilab Tevatron, we determine sigma(p (p) over bar--> W + X) x B(W-->e nu) = 2310 +/- 10(stat) +/- 50(syst) +/- 100(lum)pb and sigma(p (p) over bar-->Z + X) x B(Z-->ee)=2 21+/-3(stat)+/-4(syst)+/-10(lum)pb. From these, we derive sigma(p (p) over bar-->W + X) x B(N-->e nu)/sigma(p (p) over bar-->Z + X) x B(Z-->ee) = 10.4 3+/-0.15(stat) +/- 0.20(syst) +/- 0.10(NLO), B(W-->e nu) = 0.1044+/-0.0015( stat)+/-0.0020(syst)+/-0.0017(theory)+/-0.0010(NLO). and Gamma(w) = 2169 +/ - 0.03 l(stat) +/- 0.042(syst) +/- 0.041(theory)+/- 0.022(NLO)GeV. We use t he latter to set a 95% confidence level upper limit on the partial decay wi dth of the W boson into nonstandard model final states, Gamma(W)(inv), of 0 .213 GeV. Combining these results with those from the 1992-1993 data gives sigma(p (p) over bar-->W+X) x B(W-->e nu)/sigma(p (p) over bar-->Z+X) x B(Z -->ee) = 10.51+/-0.25, Gamma(W) = 2.152 +/- 0.066 GeV, and a 95% C.L. upper limit an Gamma(W)(inv) of 0.191 GeV. Using a sample with a luminosity of 5 05 nb(-1) taken at root s = 630 GeV, we measure sigma(p (p) over bar--> WX) x B(W --> e nu) = 658 +/- 67 pb.