Search for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair in 1.8 TeV pp collisions

• Published in: Physical review letters 2003-02, Vol.90 (8), p.081802-081802
• Main Authors: Acosta, D, Affolder, T, Akimoto, H, Albrow, M G, Ambrose, D, Amidei, D, Anikeev, K, Antos, J, Apollinari, G, Arisawa, T, Artikov, A, Asakawa, T, Ashmanskas, W, Azfar, F, Azzi-Bacchetta, P, Bacchetta, N, Bachacou, H, Badgett, W, Bailey, S, de Barbaro, P, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barnes, V E, Barnett, B A, Baroiant, S, Barone, M, Bauer, G, Bedeschi, F, Behari, S, Belforte, S, Bell, W H, Bellettini, G, Bellinger, J, Benjamin, D, Bensinger, J, Beretvas, A, Berryhill, J, Bhatti, A, Binkley, M, Bisello, D, Bishai, M, Blair, R E, Blocker, C, Bloom, K, Blumenfeld, B, Blusk, S R, Bocci, A, Bodek, A, Bolla, G, Bolshov, A, Bonushkin, Y, Bortoletto, D, Boudreau, J, Brandl, A, Bromberg, C, Brozovic, M, Brubaker, E, Bruner, N, Budagov, J, Budd, H S, Burkett, K, Busetto, G, Byrum, K L, Cabrera, S, Calafiura, P, Campbell, M, Carithers, W, Carlson, J, Carlsmith, D, Caskey, W, Castro, A, Cauz, D, Cerri, A, Cerrito, L, Chan, A W, Chang, P S, Chang, P T, Chapman, J, Chen, C, Chen, Y C, Cheng, M-T, Chertok, M, Chiarelli, G, Chirikov-Zorin, I, Chlachidze, G, Chlebana, F, Christofek, L, Chu, M L, Chung, J Y, Chung, W-H, Chung, Y S, Ciobanu, C I, Clark, A G, Coca, M, Colijn, A P, Connolly, A, Convery, M, Conway, J, Cordelli, M, Cranshaw, J, Culbertson, R
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0031-9007

We report the results of a search for a W' boson produced in pp; collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 106 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We observe no significant excess of events above background for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair. In a model where this boson would mediate interactions involving a massive right-handed neutrino (nu(R)) and have standard model strength couplings, we use these data to exclude a W' boson with mass between 225 and 536 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')>>M(nu(R)) and between 225 and 566 GeV/c(2) at 95% confidence level for M(W')