Search for New Physics in Photon-Lepton Events in pp̅ Collisions at √s= 1.8 TeV

Authors

Darin Acosta, University of FloridaFollow
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Collider Detector at Fermilab Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

7-22-2002

Comments

Published by American Physical Society. Phys. Rev. D 65, 092009 (2002). http://prd.aps.org. Copyright © 2002 American Physical Society. Permission to use.

Abstract

We present the results of a search in pp̅ collisions at √s = 1.8 TeV for anomalous production of events containing a photon and a lepton ( e or μ), both with large transverse energy, using 86 pb^-1 of data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1994–1995 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron. The presence of large missing transverse energy (E_T), additional photons, or additional leptons in these events is also analyzed. The results are consistent with standard model expectations, with the possible exception of photon-lepton events with large E_T, for which the observed total is 16 events and the expected mean total is 7.6±0.7 events.