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Search for W'->tb resonances with left- and right-handed couplings to fermions

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>9/05/2011
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Issue number3
Volume699
Number of pages6
Pages (from-to)145-150
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present a search for the production of a heavy gauge boson, W', that decays to third-generation quarks, by the D0 Collaboration in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s)= 1.96 TeV. We set 95% confidence level upper limits on the production cross section times branching fraction. For the first time, we set limits for arbitrary combinations of left- and right-handed couplings of the W' boson to fermions. For couplings with the same strength as the standard model W boson, we set the following limits for M(W') > m(nu_R): M(W')>863 GeV for purely left-handed couplings, M(W')>885 GeV for purely right-handed couplings, and M(W')>916 GeV if both left- and right-handed couplings are present. The limit for right-handed couplings improves for M(W') 890 GeV.

Bibliographic note

7 pages, 6 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B