Search for High-Mass e+e- Resonances in pp-bar Collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV

A search for high-mass resonances in the e[superscript +]e[superscript -] final state is presented based on 2.5  fb[superscript -1] of √s=1.96  TeV pp̅ collision data from the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The largest excess over the standard model prediction is at an e[superscript +]e[s...

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Main Authors: Knuteson, Bruce O., Henderson, C., Hahn, Kristian Allan, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Choudalakis, Georgios, Xie, Si, Paus, Christoph M. E., Makhoul, Khaldoun, Bauer, Gerry P
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51788
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6047-4211
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Summary:A search for high-mass resonances in the e[superscript +]e[superscript -] final state is presented based on 2.5  fb[superscript -1] of √s=1.96  TeV pp̅ collision data from the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. The largest excess over the standard model prediction is at an e[superscript +]e[superscript -] invariant mass of 240  GeV/c[superscript 2]. The probability of observing such an excess arising from fluctuations in the standard model anywhere in the mass range of 150–1000  GeV/c[superscript 2] is 0.6% (equivalent to 2.5σ). We exclude the standard model coupling Z′ and the Randall-Sundrum graviton for k/M̅ Pl=0.1 with masses below 963 and 848  GeV/c[superscript 2] at the 95% credibility level, respectively.