Measurement of the angular distribution of electrons from W -> e nu decaysobserved in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV - art. no. 072001

Authors
Abbott, B Abolins, M Abramov, V Acharya, BS Adams, DL Adams, M Alves, GA Amos, N Anderson, EW Baarmand, MM Babintsev, VV Babukhadia, L Baden, A Baldin, B Balm, PW Banerjee, S Bantly, J Barberis, E Baringer, P Bartlett, JF Bassler, U Bean, A Begel, M Belyaev, A Beri, SB Bernardi, G Bertram, I Besson, A Bezzubov, VA Bhat, PC Bhatnagar, V Bhattacharjee, M Blazey, G Blessing, S Boehnlein, A Bojko, NI Borcherding, F Brandt, A Breedon, R Briskin, G Brock, R Brooijmans, G Bross, A Buchholz, D Buehler, M Buescher, V Burtovoi, VS Butler, JM Canelli, F Carvalho, W Casey, D Casilum, Z Castilla-Valdez, H Chakraborty, D Chan, KM Chekulaev, SV Cho, DK Choi, S Chopra, S Christenson, JH Chung, M Claes, D Clark, AR Cochran, J Coney, L Connolly, B Cooper, WE Coppage, D Cummings, MAC Cutts, D Dahl, OI Davis, GA Davis, K De, K Del Signore, K Demarteau, M Demina, R Demine, P Denisov, D Denisov, SP Desai, S Diehl, HT Diesburg, M Di Loreto, G Doulas, S Draper, P Ducros, Y Dudko, LV Duensing, S Dugad, SR Dyshkant, A Edmunds, D Ellison, J Elvira, VD Engelmann, R Eno, S Eppley, G Ermolov, P Eroshin, OV Estrada, J Evans, H Evdokimov, VN Fahland, T Feher, S Fein, D Ferbel, T Fisk, HE Fisyak, Y Flattum, E Fleuret, F Fortner, M Frame, KC Fuess, S Gallas, E Galyaev, AN Gartung, P Gavrilov, V Genik, RJ Genser, K Gerber, CE Gershtein, Y Gibbard, B Gilmartin, R Ginther, G Gomez, B Gomez, G Goncharov, PI Solis, JLG Gordon, H Goss, LT Gounder, K Goussiou, A Graf, N Graham, G Grannis, PD Green, JA Greenlee, H Grinstein, S Groer, L Grudberg, P Grunendahl, S 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 Heuring, T Hirosky, R Hobbs, JD Hoeneisen, B Hoftun, JS Hou, S Huang, Y Ito, AS Jerger, SA Jesik, R Johns, K Johnson, M Jonckheere, A Jones, M Jostlein, H Juste, A Kahn, S Kajfasz, E Karmanov, D Karmgard, D Kehoe, R Kim, SK Klima, B Klopfenstein, C Knuteson, B Ko, W Kohli, JM Kostritskiy, AV Kotcher, J Kotwal, AV Kozelov, AV Kozlovsky, EA Krane, J Krishnaswamy, MR Krzywdzinski, S Kubantsev, M Kuleshov, S Kulik, Y Kunori, S Kuznetsov, VE Landsberg, G Leflat, A Lehner, F Li, J Li, QZ Lima, JGR Lincoln, D Linn, SL Linnemann, J Lipton, R Lucotte, A Lueking, L Lundstedt, C Maciel, AKA Madaras, RJ Manankov, V Mao, HS Marshall, T Martin, MI Martin, RD Mauritz, KM May, B Mayorov, AA McCarthy, R McDonald, J McMahon, T Melanson, HL Meng, XC Merkin, M Merritt, KW Miao, C Miettinen, H Mihalcea, D Mincer, A Mishra, CS Mokhov, N Mondal, NK Montgomery, HE Moore, RW Mostafa, M da Motta, H Nagy, E Nang, F Narain, M Narasimham, VS Neal, HA Negret, JP Negroni, S Norman, D Oesch, L Oguri, V Olivier, B Oshima, N Padley, P Pan, LJ Para, A Parashar, N Partridge, R Parua, N Paterno, M Patwa, A Pawlik, B Perkins, J Peters, M Peters, O Piegaia, R Piekarz, H Pope, BG Popkov, E Prosper, HB Protopopescu, S Qian, J Quintas, PZ Raja, R Rajagopalan, S Ramberg, E Rapidis, PA Reay, NW Reucroft, S Rha, J Rijssenbeek, M Rockwell, T Roco, M Rubinov, P Ruchti, R Rutherford, J Santoro, A Sawyer, L Schamberger, RD Schellman, H Schwarzman, A Sculli, J Sen, N Shabalina, E Shankar, HC Shivpuri, RK Shpakov, D Shupe, M Sidwell, RA Smak, V Singh, H Singh, JB Sirotenko, V Slattery, P Smith, E Smith, RP Snihur, R Snow, GR Snow, J Snyder, S Solomon, J Sorin, V Sosebee, M Sotnikova, N Soustruznik, K Souza, M Stanton, NR Steinbruck, G Stephens, RW Stevenson, ML Stichelbaut, F Stoker, D Stolin, V Stoyanova, DA Strauss, M Streets, K Strovink, M Stutte, L Sznajder, A Taylor, W Tentindo-Repond, S Thompson, J Toback, D Tripathi, SM Trippe, TG Turcot, AS Tuts, PM van Gemmeren, P Vaniev, V Van Kooten, R Varelas, N Volkov, AA Vorobiev, AP Wahl, HD Wang, H Wang, ZM Warchol, J Watts, G Wayne, M Weerts, H White, A White, JT Whiteson, D Wightman, JA Wijngaarden, DA Willis, S Wimpenny, SJ Wirjawan, JVD Womersley, J Wood, DR Yamada, R Yamin, P Yasuda, T Yip, K Youssef, S Yu, J Yu, Z Zanabria, M Zheng, H Zhou, Z Zhu, ZH Zielinski, M Zieminska, D Zieminski, A Zutshi, V Zverev, EG Zylberstejn, A
Citation
B. Abbott et al., Measurement of the angular distribution of electrons from W -> e nu decaysobserved in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV - art. no. 072001, PHYS REV D, 6307(7), 2001, pp. 2001
Citations number
39
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
ISSN journal
0556-2821 → ACNP
Volume
6307
Issue
7
Year of publication
2001
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-2821(20010401)6307:7<2001:MOTADO>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
We present the first measurement of the electron angular distribution param eter alpha (2) in W-->e nu events produced in proton-antiproton collisions as a function of the W boson transverse momentum. Our analysis is based on data collected using the D empty set detector during the 1994-1995 Fermilab Tevatron run. We compare our results with next-to-leadiog order perturbati ve QCD, which predicts an angular distribution of (1 +/- alpha (1) cos thet a* + alpha (2) cos(2) theta*), whew theta* is the polar angle of the electr on in the Collins-Soper frame. In the presence of QCD corrections, the para meters alpha (1) and alpha (2) become functions of p(T)(W), the W boson tra nsverse momentum. This measurement provides a test of next-to-leading order QCD corrections which are a non negligible contribution to the W boson mas s measurement.