Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3271 - 3276 (1996)

Search for Right-Handed W Bosons and Heavy W in pp̅ Collisions at sqrt[s]  =  1.8 TeV

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S. Abachi et al. (D0 Collaboration)
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Received 21 December 1995

We report on a search for right-handed W bosons (WR) with mass greater than 200 GeV/c2. We used data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp̅ collider at sqrt[s]  =  1.8 TeV to search for WR decays into an electron and a massive right-handed neutrino WR±e±NR. Using the inclusive electron data, we set mass limits independent of the NR decay: mWR>650 GeV/c2 and mWR>720 GeV/c2 at the 95% confidence level, valid for mNR<1 / 2 mWR and mNRmWR, respectively. The latter also represents a new lower limit on the mass of a heavy left-handed W boson (W) decaying into eν. In addition, limits on mWR valid for larger values of the NR mass are obtained assuming that NR decays to an electron and two jets.


©1996 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3271
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3271
PACS: 13.85.Rm, 12.60.Cn, 14.70.Fm

* Visitor from IHEP, Beijing, China.
Visitor from Univ. San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador.

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