24–31 Jul 2009
Wayne State University
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Measurements of the Trilinear Gauge Boson Couplings from Diboson Production at D0

30 Jul 2009, 14:20
20m
Wayne State University

Wayne State University

Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
Electroweak Physics [W/Z] Electroweak Physics II

Speaker

Jadranka Sekaric (Florida State University)

Description

We present the first observation of the Zgamma to nunugamma process at the Tevatron at 5.1 standard deviations significance, based on 3.6 fb-1 of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron ppbar Collider at sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV. The measured Zgamma cross section multiplied by the branching fraction of Z to nunu is 32 +- 9 (stat.+syst.) +- 2 (lumi.) fb for the photon ET > 90 GeV. It is in agreement with the standard model prediction of 39 +- 4 fb. We set the most restrictive limits on anomalous trilinear Zgammagamma and ZZgamma gauge boson couplings at a hadron collider to date, with three constraints being the world's strongest.

Author

Jadranka Sekaric (Florida State University)

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