Search for the Rare DecayW+ Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We have searched for the rare decay W+/- -->+/-+ in 16.7 pb -1 of data taken in proton-antiproton collisions at s = 1.8 TeV with the CDF detector at Fermilab. We find one event consistent with the expected signal, and estimate the background to be 2.6+/-1.0(stat)+/-1.3(syst) events. Without background subtraction, we find the ratio of partial widths to be (W+/- -->+/-+)/(W+/- -->e+/-+v)<=2.010-3 at the 95% confidence level. 1996 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • Physical Review Letters

author list (cited authors)

  • Abe, F., Albrow, M. G., Amendolia, S. R., Amidei, D., Antos, J., Anway-Wiese, C., ... Zucchelli, S.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Abe, F||Albrow, MG||Amendolia, SR||Amidei, D||Antos, J||Anway-Wiese, C||Apollinari, G||Areti, H||Atac, M||Auchincloss, P||Azfar, F||Azzi, P||Bacchetta, N||Badgett, W||Bailey, MW||Bao, J||de Barbaro, P||Barbaro-Galtieri, A||Barnes, VE||Barnett, BA||Bartalini, P||Bauer, G||Baumann, T||Bedeschi, F||Behrends, S||Belforte, S||Bellettini, G||Bellinger, J||Benjamin, D||Benlloch, J||Bensinger, J||Benton, D||Beretvas, A||Berge, JP||Bertolucci, S||Bhatti, A||Biery, K||Binkley, M||Bird, F||Bisello, D||Blair, RE||Blocker, C||Bodek, A||Bokhari, W||Bolognesi, V||Bortoletto, D||Boswell, C||Boulos, T||Brandenburg, G||Bromberg, C||Buckley-Geer, E||Budd, HS||Burkett, K||Busetto, G||Byon-Wagner, A||Byrum, KL||Cammerata, J||Campagnari, C||Campbell, M||Caner, A||Carithers, W||Carlsmith, D||Castro, A||Cen, Y||Cervelli, F||Chao, HY||Chapman, J||Cheng, M-T||Chiarelli, G||Chikamatsu, T||Chiou, CN||Christofek, L||Cihangir, S||Clark, AG||Cobal, M||Contreras, M||Conway, J||Cooper, J||Cordelli, M||Couyoumtzelis, C||Crane, D||Cunningham, JD||Daniels, T||DeJongh, F||Delchamps, S||Dell'Agnello, S||Dell'Orso, M||Demortier, L||Denby, B||Deninno, M||Derwent, PF||Devlin, T||Dickson, M||Dittmann, JR||Donati, S||Drucker, RB||Dunn, A||Einsweiler, K||Elias, JE||Ely, R||Engels, Jr., E||Eno, S||Errede, D||Errede, S||Fan, Q||Farhat, B||Fiori, I||Flaugher, B||Foster, GW||Franklin, M||Frautschi, M||Freeman, J||Friedman, J||Frisch, H||Fry, A||Fuess, TA||Fukui, Y||Funaki, S||Gagliardi, G||Galeotti, S||Gallinaro, M||Garfinkel, AF||Geer, S||Gerdes, DW||Giannetti, P||Giokaris, N||Giromini, P||Gladney, L||Glenzinski, D||Gold, M||Gonzalez, J||Gordon, A||Goshaw, AT||Goulianos, K||Grassmann, H||Grewal, A||Groer, L||Grosso-Pilcher, C||Haber, C||Hahn, SR||Hamilton, R||Handler, R||Hans, RM||Hara, K||Harral, B||Harris, RM||Hauger, SA||Hauser, J||Hawk, C||Heinrich, J||Cronin-Hennessy, D||Hollebeek, R||Holloway, L||Hölscher, A||Hong, S||Houk, G||Hu, P||Huffman, BT||Hughes, R||Hurst, P||Huston, J||Huth, J||Hylen, J||Incagli, M||Incandela, J||Iso, H||Jensen, H||Jessop, CP||Joshi, U||Kadel, RW||Kajfasz, E||Kamon, T||Kaneko, T||Kardelis, DA||Kasha, H||Kato, Y||Keeble, L||Kennedy, RD||Kephart, R||Kesten, P||Kestenbaum, D||Keup, RM||Keutelian, H||Keyvan, F||Kim, DH||Kim, HS||Kim, SB||Kim, SH||Kim, YK||Kirsch, L||Koehn, P||Kondo, K||Konigsberg, J||Kopp, S||Kordas, K||Koska, W||Kovacs, E||Kowald, W||Krasberg, M||Kroll, J||Kruse, M||Kuhlmann, SE||Kuns, E||Laasanen, AT||Labanca, N||Lammel, S||Lamoureux, JI||LeCompte, T||Leone, S||Lewis, JD||Limon, P||Lindgren, M||Liss, TM||Lockyer, N||Loomis, C||Long, O||Loreti, M||Low, EH||Lu, J||Lucchesi, D||Luchini, CB||Lukens, P||Lys, J||Maas, P||Maeshima, K||Maghakian, A||Maksimovic, P||Mangano, M||Mansour, J||Mariotti, M||Marriner, JP||Martin, A||Matthews, JAJ||Mattingly, R||McIntyre, P||Melese, P||Menzione, A||Meschi, E||Michail, G||Mikamo, S||Miller, M||Miller, R||Mimashi, T||Miscetti, S||Mishina, M||Mitsushio, H||Miyashita, S||Morita, Y||Moulding, S||Mueller, J||Mukherjee, A||Muller, T||Musgrave, P||Nakae, LF||Nakano, I||Nelson, C||Neuberger, D||Newman-Holmes, C||Nodulman, L||Ogawa, S||Oh, SH||Ohl, KE||Oishi, R||Okusawa, T||Pagliarone, C||Paoletti, R||Papadimitriou, V||Pappas, SP||Park, S||Patrick, J||Pauletta, G||Paulini, M||Pescara, L||Peters, MD||Phillips, TJ||Piacentino, G||Pillai, M||Plunkett, R||Pondrom, L||Produit, N||Proudfoot, J||Ptohos, F||Punzi, G||Ragan, K||Rimondi, F||Ristori, L||Roach-Bellino, M||Robertson, WJ||Rodrigo, T||Romano, J||Rosenson, L||Sakumoto, WK||Saltzberg, D||Sansoni, A||Scarpine, V||Schindler, A||Schlabach, P||Schmidt, EE||Schmidt, MP||Schneider, O||Sciacca, GF||Scribano, A||Segler, S||Seidel, S||Seiya, Y||Sganos, G||Sgolacchia, A||Shapiro, M||Shaw, NM||Shen, Q||Shepard, PF||Shimojima, M||Shochet, M||Siegrist, J||Sill, A||Sinervo, P||Singh, P||Skarha, J||Sliwa, K||Smith, DA||Snider, FD||Song, L||Song, T||Spalding, J||Spiegel, L||Sphicas, P||Stanco, L||Steele, J||Stefanini, A||Strahl, K||Strait, J||Stuart, D||Sullivan, G||Sumorok, K||Swartz, Jr., RL||Takahashi, T||Takikawa, K||Tartarelli, F||Taylor, W||Teng, PK||Teramoto, Y||Tether, S||Theriot, D||Thomas, J||Thomas, TL||Thun, R||Timko, M||Tipton, P||Titov, A||Tkaczyk, S||Tollefson, K||Tollestrup, A||Tonnison, J||de Troconiz, JF||Tseng, J||Turcotte, M||Turini, N||Uemura, N||Ukegawa, F||Unal, G||van den Brink, SC||Vejcik III, S||Vidal, R||Vondracek, M||Vucinic, D||Wagner, RG||Wagner, RL||Wainer, N||Walker, RC||Wang, C||Wang, CH||Wang, G||Wang, J||Wang, MJ||Wang, QF||Warburton, A||Watts, G||Watts, T||Webb, R||Wei, C||Wendt, C||Wenzel, H||Wester III, WC||Westhusing, T||Wicklund, AB||Wicklund, E||Wilkinson, R||Williams, HH||Wilson, P||Winer, BL||Wolinski, J||Wu, DY||Wu, X||Wyss, J||Yagil, A||Yao, W||Yasuoka, K||Ye, Y||Yeh, GP||Yeh, P||Yin, M||Yoh, J||Yosef, C||Yoshida, T||Yovanovitch, D||Yu, I||Yun, JC||Zanetti, A||Zetti, F||Zhang, L||Zhang, S||Zhang, W||Zucchelli, S

publication date

  • January 1996