Search for Hadronic Decays of $W$ and $Z$ Bosons in Photon Events in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96-GeV - INSPIRE

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Search for Hadronic Decays of $W$ and $Z$ Bosons in Photon Events in $p \bar{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.96-GeV

CDF

Collaboration

Mar, 2008

17 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 80 (2009) 052011

e-Print:

0803.4264 [hep-ex]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.80.052011

Report number:

FERMILAB-PUB-08-071-E

Experiments:

FNAL-E-0830

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Abstract: (arXiv)

We report on a search for the process

p\bar{p}\to \gamma+W/Z

with

W/Z\to q\bar{q}

in events containing two jets and a photon at the center-of-mass energy

\sqrt{s}=1.96

TeV, using 184 pb

^{-1}

of data collected by the CDF II detector. A neural network event selection has been developed to optimize the rejection of the large QCD production background/ it is shown that this method gives a significant improvement in both signal-to-noise ratio and signal sensitivity, as compared with an event selection based on conventional cuts. An upper limit is presented for the

\gamma+W/Z

production cross section with the

W

and

Z

decaying hadronically.

Note:

Submitted to Phys.Rev.D

12.15.Ji
13.87.Fh
13.38.Dg
13.85.Qk
OSG : CDF
anti-p p: colliding beams
jet: pair production
photon: associated production
intermediate boson: hadroproduction
W: hadronic decay

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