A new heavy gauge boson, W', decaying to a muon and a neutrino, is searched for in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb-1. No significant excess of events above the standard model expectation is found in the transverse mass distribution of the muon-neutrino system. Masses below 1.40 TeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level for a sequential standard-model-like W'. The W' mass lower limit increases to 1.58 TeV when the present analysis is combined with the CMS result for the electron channel. © 2011 CERN.

Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., et al. (2011). Search for a W' boson decaying to a muon and a neutrino in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 701(2), 160-179 [10.1016/j.physletb.2011.05.048].

Search for a W' boson decaying to a muon and a neutrino in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV

BENAGLIA, ANDREA DAVIDE;DE GUIO, FEDERICO;DI MATTEO, LEONARDO;GHEZZI, ALESSIO;MALBERTI, MARTINA;MARTELLI, ARABELLA;MASSIRONI, ANDREA;MORONI, LUIGI;PAGANONI, MARCO;RAGAZZI, STEFANO;TABARELLI DE FATIS, TOMMASO;TANCINI, VALENTINA;Branca, A;GOVONI, PIETRO;DINARDO, MAURO EMANUELE;
2011

Abstract

A new heavy gauge boson, W', decaying to a muon and a neutrino, is searched for in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The data, collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb-1. No significant excess of events above the standard model expectation is found in the transverse mass distribution of the muon-neutrino system. Masses below 1.40 TeV are excluded at the 95% confidence level for a sequential standard-model-like W'. The W' mass lower limit increases to 1.58 TeV when the present analysis is combined with the CMS result for the electron channel. © 2011 CERN.
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CMS; Computing; Physics; Software; Nuclear and High Energy Physics
English
2011
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Chatrchyan, S., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Bergauer, T., et al. (2011). Search for a W' boson decaying to a muon and a neutrino in pp collisions at √s=7 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 701(2), 160-179 [10.1016/j.physletb.2011.05.048].
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