Phys. Rev. D
75,
112001
(2007)
[15 pages]
Search for new physics in lepton+photon+X events with 929 pb-1 of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
A. Abulencia et al. CDF Collaboration
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A. Abulencia24, J. Adelman13, T. Affolder10, T. Akimoto56, M. G. Albrow17, D. Ambrose17, S. Amerio44, D. Amidei35, A. Anastassov53, K. Anikeev17, A. Annovi19, J. Antos14, M. Aoki56, G. Apollinari17, J.-F. Arguin34, T. Arisawa58, A. Artikov15, W. Ashmanskas17, A. Attal8, F. Azfar43, P. Azzi-Bacchetta44, P. Azzurri47, N. Bacchetta44, W. Badgett17, A. Barbaro-Galtieri29, V. E. Barnes49, B. A. Barnett25, S. Baroiant7, V. Bartsch31, G. Bauer33, F. Bedeschi47, S. Behari25, S. Belforte55, G. Bellettini47, J. Bellinger60, A. Belloni33, D. Benjamin16, A. Beretvas17, J. Beringer29, T. Berry30, A. Bhatti51, M. Binkley17, D. Bisello44, R. E. Blair2, C. Blocker6, B. Blumenfeld25, A. Bocci16, A. Bodek50, V. Boisvert50, G. Bolla49, A. Bolshov33, D. Bortoletto49, J. Boudreau48, A. Boveia10, B. Brau10, L. Brigliadori5, C. Bromberg36, E. Brubaker13, J. Budagov15, H. S. Budd50, S. Budd24, S. Budroni47, K. Burkett17, G. Busetto44, P. Bussey21, K. L. Byrum2, S. Cabrera16,j, M. Campanelli20, M. 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1Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, Republic of China 2Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA 3Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain 4Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA 5Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy 6Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254, USA 7University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA 8University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA 9University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA 10University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 11Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC-University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain 12Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA 13Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA 14Comenius University, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia; Institute of Experimental Physics, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia 15Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia 16Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 17Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA 18University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA 19Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-00044 Frascati, Italy 20University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland 21Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom 22Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 23Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland 24University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA 25The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA 26Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany 27High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan 28Center for High Energy Physics: Kyungpook National University, Taegu 702-701, Korea; Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea; and SungKyunKwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea 29Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 30University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom 31University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom 32Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, E-28040 Madrid, Spain 33Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 34Institute of Particle Physics: McGill University, Montréal, Canada H3A 2T8; and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A7 35University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA 36Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 37Institution for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP, Moscow 117259, Russia 38University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA 39Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA 40The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA 41Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan 42Osaka City University, Osaka 588, Japan 43University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom 44University of Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento, I-35131 Padova, Italy 45LPNHE, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/IN2P3-CNRS, UMR7585, Paris, F-75252 France 46University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA 47Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Pisa, Universities of Pisa, Siena and Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56127 Pisa, Italy 48University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA 49Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA 50University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA 51The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA 52Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma 1, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Roma, Italy 53Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA 54Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA 55Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Trieste/Udine, Italy 56University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan 57Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA 58Waseda University, Tokyo 169, Japan 59Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA 60University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA 61Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Received 21 February 2007; published 28 June 2007
We present results of a search at CDF in 929±56 pb-1 of pp̅ collisions at 1.96 TeV for the anomalous production of events containing a high-transverse momentum charged lepton (ℓ, either e or μ) and photon (γ), accompanied by missing transverse energy (E̸T), and/or additional leptons and photons, and jets (X). We use the same selection criteria as in a previous CDF Run I search, but with an order-magnitude larger data set, a higher pp̅ collision energy, and the CDF II detector. We find 163 ℓγE̸T+X events, compared to an expectation of 150.6±13.0 events. We observe 74 ℓℓγ+X events, compared to an expectation of 65.1±7.7 events. We find no events similar to the Run I eeγγE̸T event.
© 2007 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.112001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.112001
PACS:
13.85.Rm, 12.60.Jv, 13.85.Qk, 14.80.Ly
*Visiting scientist from University of Athens, University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece. †Visiting scientist from University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom. ‡Visiting scientist from University Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. §Visiting scientist from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. **Visiting scientist from University of Cyprus, Nicosia CY-1678, Cyprus. ††Visiting scientist from University of Dublin, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland. ‡‡Visiting scientist from University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom. aVisiting scientist from University of Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. bVisiting scientist from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico D.F., Mexico. cVisiting scientist from University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England. dVisiting scientist from Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan. eVisiting scientist from University de Oviedo, E-33007 Oviedo, Spain. fVisiting scientist from University of London, Queen Mary College, London, E1 4NS, England. gVisiting scientist from University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. hVisiting scientist from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA. iVisiting scientist from University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA. jVisiting scientist from IFIC (CSIC-Universitat de Valencia), 46071 Valencia, Spain.
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