Phys. Rev. D
78,
012008
(2008)
[11 pages]
Search for new heavy particles decaying to Z0Z0→eeee in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV
T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
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T. Aaltonen23, J. Adelman13, T. Akimoto54, M. G. Albrow17, B. Álvarez González11, S. Amerio42, D. Amidei34, A. Anastassov51, A. Annovi19, J. Antos14, M. Aoki24, G. Apollinari17, A. Apresyan47, T. Arisawa56, A. Artikov15, W. Ashmanskas17, A. Attal3, A. Aurisano52, F. Azfar41, P. Azzi-Bacchetta42, P. Azzurri45, N. Bacchetta42, W. Badgett17, A. Barbaro-Galtieri28, V. E. Barnes47, B. A. Barnett25, S. Baroiant7, V. Bartsch30, G. Bauer32, P.-H. Beauchemin33, F. Bedeschi45, P. Bednar14, S. Behari25, G. Bellettini45, J. Bellinger58, A. Belloni22, D. Benjamin16, A. Beretvas17, J. Beringer28, T. Berry29, A. Bhatti49, M. Binkley17, D. Bisello42, I. Bizjak30, R. E. Blair2, C. Blocker6, B. Blumenfeld25, A. Bocci16, A. Bodek48, V. Boisvert48, G. Bolla47, A. Bolshov32, D. Bortoletto47, J. Boudreau46, A. Boveia10, B. Brau10, A. Bridgeman24, L. Brigliadori5, C. Bromberg35, E. Brubaker13, J. Budagov15, H. S. Budd48, S. Budd24, K. Burkett17, G. Busetto42, P. Bussey21, A. Buzatu33, K. L. Byrum2, S. 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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, USA 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 27Center for High Energy Physics: Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea; Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea; Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea; Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, 305-806, Korea; Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea 28Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 29University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom 30University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom 31Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, E-28040 Madrid, Spain 32Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA 33Institute of Particle Physics: McGill University, Montréal, Canada H3A 2T8; and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A7 34University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA 35Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 36University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA 37Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA 38The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA 39Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan 40Osaka City University, Osaka 588, Japan 41University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom 42University of Padova, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento, I-35131 Padova, Italy 43LPNHE, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/IN2P3-CNRS, UMR7585, Paris, F-75252 France 44University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA 45Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Pisa, Universities of Pisa, Siena and Scuola Normale Superiore, I-56127 Pisa, Italy 46University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA 47Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA 48University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA 49The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA 50Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma 1, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Roma, Italy 51Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA 52Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA 53Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Trieste/Udine, Italy 54University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan 55Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA 56Waseda University, Tokyo 169, Japan 57Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA 58University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA 59Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Received 9 January 2008; published 29 July 2008
We report the results of a search for the anomalous production of a massive particle decaying to four electrons via two Z0 bosons in 1.1 fb-1 of pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV collected by the CDF II detector at Fermilab. We employ optimized electron identification criteria to maximize acceptance and efficiency. We estimate the backgrounds in the invariant mass range 500–1000 GeV/c2 to be 0.028±0.009(stat)±0.011(syst) events. We observe zero events in this search region. Assuming a Randall-Sundrum graviton production model, we set 95% C.L. limits on σ×BF(G→Z0Z0)<4–6 pb, depending on the graviton mass.
© 2008 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.012008
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.012008
PACS:
12.60.Cn, 13.85.Rm, 14.70.Hp
*With visitors from the University of Athens, 15784 Athens, Greece, †With visitors from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100864, China, ‡With visitors from the University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL, United Kingdom, §With visitors from the University Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium, **With visitors from the University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA ††With visitors from the University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA ‡‡With visitors from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA aWith visitors from the University of Cyprus, Nicosia CY-1678, Cyprus, bWith visitors from the University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland, cWith visitors from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, United Kingdom, dWith visitors from the University of Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany, eWith visitors from Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico D.F., Mexico, fWith visitors from the University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England, gWith visitors from Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan, hWith visitors from the University de Oviedo, E-33007 Oviedo, Spain, iWith visitors from Queen Mary, University of London, London, E1 4NS, England, jWith visitors from Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA kWith visitors from IFIC (CSIC-Universitat de Valencia), 46071 Valencia, Spain,
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