Search for a narrow tt̅ resonance in pp̅ collisions at √s= 1.96 TeV

Authors

V. M. Abazov, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Daniel R. Claes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Kayle DeVaughan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Aaron Dominguez, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Michael Eads, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Ioannis Katsanos, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Sudhir Malik, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2012

Citation

PHYSICAL REVIEW D 85, 051101(R) (2012); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.051101

Comments

Copyright 2012 American Physical Society

Abstract

We report a search for a narrow tt̅ resonance that decays into a lepton + jets final state based on an integrated luminosity of 5.3 fb^-1 of proton-antiproton collisions at √s= 1.96 TeV collected by the D0 Collaboration at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. We set upper limits on the production cross section of such a resonance multiplied by its branching fraction to tt̅. We exclude a leptophobic topcolor Z^! at the 95% confidence level for masses below 835 GeV (940 GeV) if its width is 1.2% (3%) of its mass. We also exclude color octet vector bosons (colorons) with masses below 775 GeV.