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Search for ttbar resonances in the lepton plus jets final state in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV. / Collaboration, D0; Bertram, Iain; Borissov, Guennadi et al.
In: Physics Letters B, Vol. 668, No. 2, 02.10.2008, p. 98-104.

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Collaboration D, Bertram I, Borissov G, Fox H, Williams M, Ratoff P et al. Search for ttbar resonances in the lepton plus jets final state in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV. Physics Letters B. 2008 Oct 2;668(2):98-104. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2008.08.027

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abstract = "We present a search for a narrow-width heavy resonance decaying into top quark pairs X->ttbar in ppbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96TeV using approximately 0.9fb^-1 of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. This analysis considers ttbar candidate events in the lepton plus jets channel with at least one identified b jet and uses the ttbar invariant mass distribution to search for evidence of resonant production. We find no evidence for a narrow resonance X decaying to ttbar. Therefore, we set upper limits on sigma*B(X->ttbar) for different hypothesized resonance masses using a Bayesian approach. For a Topcolor-assisted technicolor model, the existence of a leptophobic Z' boson with mass M_Z'",
author = "D0 Collaboration and Iain Bertram and Guennadi Borissov and Harald Fox and Mark Williams and Peter Ratoff and Peter Love and Alexander Rakitin and Andre Sopczak",
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AU - Borissov, Guennadi

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Williams, Mark

AU - Ratoff, Peter

AU - Love, Peter

AU - Rakitin, Alexander

AU - Sopczak, Andre

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