Limits on anomalous trilinear gauge couplings in Zγ events from pp¯ collisions at √s=1.96  TeV

• Published in: Physical review letters 2011-07, Vol.107 (5), p.051802-051802
• Main Authors: Aaltonen, T, Alvarez González, B, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Appel, J A, Apresyan, A, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Asaadi, J, Ashmanskas, W, Auerbach, B, Aurisano, A, Azfar, F, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, V E, Barnett, B A, Barria, P, Bartos, P, Bauce, M, Bauer, G, Bedeschi, F, Beecher, D, Behari, S, Bellettini, G, Bellinger, J, Benjamin, D, Beretvas, A, Bhatti, A, Binkley, M, Bisello, D, Bizjak, I, Bland, K R, Blumenfeld, B, Bocci, A, Bodek, A, Bortoletto, D, Boudreau, J, Boveia, A, Brau, B, Brigliadori, L, Brisuda, A, Bromberg, C, Brucken, E, Bucciantonio, M, Budagov, J, Budd, H S, Budd, S, Burkett, K, Busetto, G, Bussey, P, Buzatu, A, Calancha, C, Camarda, S, Campanelli, M, Campbell, M, Canelli, F, Canepa, A, Carls, B, Carlsmith, D, Carosi, R, Carrillo, S, Carron, S, Casal, B, Casarsa, M, Castro, A, Catastini, P, Cauz, D, Cavaliere, V, Cavalli-Sforza, M, Cerri, A, Cerrito, L, Chen, Y C, Chertok, M, Chiarelli, G, Chlachidze, G, Chlebana, F, Cho, K, Chokheli, D, Chou, J P, Chung, W H, Chung, Y S, Ciobanu, C I, Ciocci, M A, Clark, A, Compostella, G, Convery, M E, Conway, J, Corbo, M, Cordelli, M, Cox, C A, Cox, D J, Crescioli, F, Cuenca Almenar, C, Cuevas, J, Culbertson, R
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Astrophysics; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; High Energy Physics - Experiment; Physics; Sciences of the Universe
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.051802

Using Zγ candidate events collected by the CDF detector at the Tevatron Collider, we search for potential anomalous (non-standard-model) couplings between the Z boson and the photon. Zγ couplings vanish at tree level and are heavily suppressed at higher orders; hence any evidence of couplings indicates new physics. Measurements are performed using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.9  fb(-1) in the Z→νν¯ decay channel and 5.1  fb(-1) in the Z→l(+)l(-) (l=μ, e) decay channels. The combination of these measurements provides the most stringent limits to date on Zγ trilinear gauge couplings. Using an energy scale of Λ=1.5  TeV to allow for a direct comparison with previous measurements, we find limits on the CP-conserving parameters that describe Zγ couplings to be |h(3)(γ,Z)|