Search for new phenomena in events with two Z bosons and missing transverse momentum in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We present a search for new phenomena in events with two reconstructed Z bosons and large missing transverse momentum, sensitive to processes ppX 2X 2ZZX 1X 1, where X 2 is an unstable particle decaying as X 2 ZX 1 and X 1 is undetected. The particles X 1 and X 2 may be, among other possibilities, fourth-generation neutrinos or supersymmetric particles. We study the final state in which one Z boson decays to two charged leptons and the second decays hadronically. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.2fb -1 from proton-antiproton collisions recorded by the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, with center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV, we find agreement between data and standard-model backgrounds. We calculate 95% confidence level upper limits on the cross section of the process ppX 2X 2ZZX 1X 1 ranging from 50 fb to 1 pb, depending on the masses of X 1 and X 2. 2012 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Aaltonen, T., Alvarez Gonzalez, B., Amerio, S., Amidei, D., Anastassov, A., Annovi, A., ... Zucchelli, S.

citation count

  • 4

complete list of authors

  • Aaltonen, T||Alvarez Gonzalez, B||Amerio, S||Amidei, D||Anastassov, A||Annovi, A||Antos, J||Apollinari, G||Appel, JA||Arisawa, T||Artikov, A||Asaadi, J||Ashmanskas, W||Auerbach, B||Aurisano, A||Azfar, F||Badgett, W||Bae, T||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Barria, P||Bartos, P||Bauce, M||Bedeschi, F||Behari, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Beretvas, A||Bhatti, A||Bisello, D||Bizjak, I||Bland, KR||Blumenfeld, B||Bocci, A||Bodek, A||Bortoletto, D||Boudreau, J||Boveia, A||Brigliadori, L||Bromberg, C||Brucken, E||Budagov, J||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Bussey, P||Buzatu, A||Calamba, A||Calancha, C||Camarda, S||Campanelli, M||Campbell, M||Canelli, F||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, YC||Chertok, M||Chiarelli, G||Chlachidze, G||Chlebana, F||Cho, K||Chokheli, D||Chung, WH||Chung, YS||Ciocci, MA||Clark, A||Clarke, C||Compostella, G||Convery, ME||Conway, J||Corbo, M||Cordelli, M||Cox, CA||Cox, DJ||Crescioli, F||Cuevas, J||Culbertson, R||Dagenhart, D||d'Ascenzo, N||Datta, M||De Barbaro, P||Dell'Orso, M||Demortier, L||Deninno, M||Devoto, F||d'Errico, M||Di Canto, A||Di Ruzza, B||Dittmann, JR||D'Onofrio, M||Donati, S||Dong, P||Dorigo, M||Dorigo, T||Ebina, K||Elagin, A||Eppig, A||Erbacher, R||Errede, S||Ershaidat, N||Eusebi, R||Farrington, S||Feindt, M||Fernandez, JP||Field, R||Flanagan, G||Forrest, R||Frank, MJ||Franklin, M||Freeman, JC||Funakoshi, Y||Furic, I||Gallinaro, M||Garcia, JE||Garfinkel, AF||Garosi, P||Gerberich, H||Gerchtein, E||Giagu, S||Giakoumopoulou, V||Giannetti, P||Gibson, K||Ginsburg, CM||Giokaris, N||Giromini, P||Giurgiu, G||Glagolev, V||Glenzinski, D||Gold, M||Goldin, D||Goldschmidt, N||Golossanov, A||Gomez, G||Gomez-Ceballos, G||Goncharov, M||Gonzalez, O||Gorelov, I||Goshaw, AT||Goulianos, K||Grinstein, S||Grosso-Pilcher, C||Group, RC||da Costa, J Guimaraes||Hahn, SR||Halkiadakis, E||Hamaguchi, A||Han, JY||Happacher, F||Hara, K||Hare, D||Hare, M||Harr, RF||Hatakeyama, K||Hays, C||Heck, M||Heinrich, J||Herndon, M||Hewamanage, S||Hocker, A||Hopkins, W||Horn, D||Hou, S||Hughes, RE||Hurwitz, M||Husemann, U||Hussain, N||Hussein, M||Huston, J||Introzzi, G||Iori, M||Ivanov, A||James, E||Jang, D||Jayatilaka, B||Jeon, EJ||Jindariani, S||Jones, M||Joo, KK||Jun, SY||Junk, TR||Kamon, T||Karchin, PE||Kasmi, A||Kato, Y||Ketchum, W||Keung, J||Khotilovich, V||Kilminster, B||Kim, DH||Kim, HS||Kim, JE||Kim, MJ||Kim, SB||Kim, SH||Kim, YK||Kim, YJ||Kimura, N||Kirby, M||Klimenko, S||Knoepfel, K||Kondo, K||Kong, DJ||Konigsberg, J||Kotwal, AV||Kreps, M||Kroll, J||Krop, D||Kruse, M||Krutelyov, V||Kuhr, T||Kurata, M||Kwang, S||Laasanen, AT||Lami, S||Lammel, S||Lancaster, M||Lander, RL||Lannon, K||Lath, A||Latino, G||LeCompte, T||Lee, E||Lee, HS||Lee, JS||Lee, SW||Leo, S||Leone, S||Lewis, JD||Limosani, A||Lin, C-J||Lindgren, M||Lipeles, E||Lister, A||Litvintsev, DO||Liu, C||Liu, H||Liu, Q||Liu, T||Lockwitz, S||Loginov, A||Lucchesi, D||Lueck, J||Lujan, P||Lukens, P||Lungu, G||Lys, J||Lysak, R||Madrak, R||Maeshima, K||Maestro, P||Malik, S||Manca, G||Manousakis-Katsikakis, A||Margaroli, F||Marino, C||Martinez, M||Mastrandrea, P||Matera, K||Mattson, ME||Mazzacane, A||Mazzanti, P||McFarland, KS||McIntyre, P||McNulty, R||Mehta, A||Mehtala, P||Mesropian, C||Miao, T||Mietlicki, D||Mitra, A||Miyake, H||Moed, S||Moggi, N||Mondragon, MN||Moon, CS||Moore, R||Morello, MJ||Morlock, J||Fernandez, P Movilla||Mukherjee, A||Muller, Th||Murat, P||Mussini, M||Nachtman, J||Nagai, Y||Naganoma, J||Nakano, I||Napier, A||Nett, J||Neu, C||Neubauer, MS||Nielsen, J||Nodulman, L||Noh, SY||Norniella, O||Oakes, L||Oh, SH||Oh, YD||Oksuzian, I||Okusawa, T||Orava, R||Ortolan, L||Griso, S Pagan||Pagliarone, C||Palencia, E||Papadimitriou, V||Paramonov, AA||Patrick, J||Pauletta, G||Paulini, M||Paus, C||Pellett, DE||Penzo, A||Phillips, TJ||Piacentino, G||Pianori, E||Pilot, J||Pitts, K||Plager, C||Pondrom, L||Poprocki, S||Potamianos, K||Prokoshin, F||Pranko, A||Ptohos, F||Punzi, G||Rahaman, A||Ramakrishnan, V||Ranjan, N||Redondo, I||Renton, P||Rescigno, M||Riddick, T||Rimondi, F||Ristori, L||Robson, A||Rodrigo, T||Rodriguez, T||Rogers, E||Rolli, S||Roser, R||Ruffini, F||Ruiz, A||Russ, J||Rusu, V||Safonov, A||Sakumoto, WK||Sakurai, Y||Santi, L||Sato, K||Saveliev, V||Savoy-Navarro, A||Schlabach, P||Schmidt, A||Schmidt, EE||Schwarz, T||Scodellaro, L||Scribano, A||Scuri, F||Seidel, S||Seiya, Y||Semenov, A||Sforza, F||Shalhout, SZ||Shears, T||Shepard, PF||Shimojima, M||Shochet, M||Shreyber-Tecker, I||Simonenko, A||Sinervo, P||Sliwa, K||Smith, JR||Snider, FD||Soha, A||Sorin, V||Song, H||Squillacioti, P||Stancari, M||Denis, R St||Stelzer, B||Stelzer-Chilton, O||Stentz, D||Strologas, J||Strycker, GL||Sudo, Y||Sukhanov, A||Suslov, I||Takemasa, K||Takeuchi, Y||Tang, J||Tecchio, M||Teng, PK||Thom, J||Thome, J||Thompson, GA||Thomson, E||Toback, D||Tokar, S||Tollefson, K||Tomura, T||Tonelli, D||Torre, S||Torretta, D||Totaro, P||Trovato, M||Ukegawa, F||Uozumi, S||Varganov, A||Vazquez, F||Vasquez, J||Velev, G||Vellidis, C||Vidal, M||Vila, I||Vilar, R||Vizan, J||Vogel, M||Volpi, G||Wagner, P||Wagner, RL||Wakisaka, T||Wallny, R||Wang, SM||Warburton, A||Waters, D||Wester, WCIII||Whiteson, D||Wicklund, AB||Wicklund, E||Wilbur, S||Wick, F||Williams, HH||Wilson, JS||Wilson, P||Winer, BL||Wittich, P||Wolbers, S||Wolfe, H||Wright, T||Wu, X||Wu, Z||Yamamoto, K||Yamato, D||Yang, T||Yang, UK||Yang, YC||Yao, W-M||Yeh, GP||Yi, K||Yoh, J||Yorita, K||Yoshida, T||Yu, GB||Yu, I||Yu, SS||Yun, JC||Zanetti, A||Zeng, Y||Zhou, C||Zucchelli, S

publication date

  • January 2012