1. Observation of diffractively produced W and Z bosons in p̄p collisions at √s = 1800 GeV
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R. Van Kooten, Wendy Taylor, A. Patwa, S. Fu, P. Demine, A. Zieminski, Q. Xu, J. Huang, R. A. Sidwell, Alexander Khanov, U. Bassler, A. N. Galyaev, Stephen Wimpenny, G. Steinbrück, Rajendran Raja, H. Zheng, Brad Abbott, Pierre Petroff, S. Fuess, Roger Moore, Zeno Dixon Greenwood, K. W. Merritt, Vladimir Gavrilov, Gordon Watts, D. Coppage, V. Sirotenko, D. K. Cho, Y. Arnoud, R. Illingworth, Regina Demina, T. C. Bacon, E. W. Anderson, M. Buehler, J. F. Bartlett, A. Besson, N. A. Naumann, F. Borcherding, L. Lueking, Bobby Samir Acharya, H. A. Neal, J. T. Linnemann, V. M. Abazov, V. Sorín, O. V. Eroshin, Y. Song, Phillip Gutierrez, T. Marshall, W. E. Cooper, K. Yip, S. Duensing, V. Oguri, Ulrich Heintz, D. Fein, D. Chakraborty, S. Chopra, Don Lincoln, Q. Z. Li, P. W. Balm, V. Manankov, M. Abolins, S. Reucroft, D. P. Stoker, Gustaaf Brooijmans, H. Jöstlein, Darien Wood, G. Sajot, P. Yamin, Frank Filthaut, A. Stone, Daniel John Karmgard, Elemer Nagy, N. R. Stanton, S. N. Ahmed, M. Fortner, L. Stutte, N. W. Reay, R. L. McCarthy, H. L. Melanson, N. Parua, V.V. Abramov, M. Jaffré, Arnaud Duperrin, Alberto Santoro, M. Diesburg, Nicholas John Hadley, C. Hebert, Sebastian Grinstein, N. K. Mondal, J. Warchol, H. T. Diehl, T. A. Bolton, C. Han, A.S. Dyshkant, Arnaud Lucotte, Jong-Sung Yu, Alexander Kupco, G. D. Alexeev, Flera Rizatdinova, D. Whiteson, A. V. Kostritskiy, D. Mihalcea, W. Kahl, A. Boehnlein, M. Bhattacharjee, S. Blessing, P. Rubinov, K. Gounder, Sissel Hansen, David H. Adams, Alice Bean, P. M. Tuts, V. E. Kuznetsov, Sarah Catherine Eno, T. Rockwell, Iain Alexander Bertram, H. E. Fisk, Scott Snyder, F. Fleuret, M. Merkin, Randy Ruchti, M. A. Strang, Jing Li, Ariel Schwartzman, Melissa Ridel, F. Canelli, R. Kehoe, D. A. Stoyanova, A. S. Turcot, Michael Rijssenbeek, S. N. Gurzhiev, T. G. Trippe, Z. Zhou, J. Solomon, L. Duflot, M. Strovink, Emanuela Barberis, Robert Hirosky, Volker Buescher, Shuichi Kunori, Raymond Brock, Boaz Klima, Elizabeth Gallas, T. McMahon, R. Beuselinck, F. Nang, Vasken Hagopian, Christophe Royon, A. M. Kalinin, G. Eppley, Heriberto Castilla-Valdez, V. Vaniev, Richard B. Lipton, H. Weerts, N.V. Mokhov, Z. M. Wang, M. I. Martin, J. Ellison, A. K.A. Maciel, Sa. Jain, A. Abdesselam, V. Simak, A. Leflat, H. da Motta, S. Willis, M. Gao, Sharon Hagopian, Lev Dudko, F. Villeneuve-Seguier, A. P. Heinson, Pushpalatha C Bhat, P. Padley, G. Gutierrez, Gilvan Alves, J. G.R. Lima, D. Cutts, C. Luo, D. Casey, J. Kotcher, Alexey Volkov, J. M. Hauptman, Cecilia Elena Gerber, H. D. Wahl, D. Bauer, V. S. Narasimham, L. Groer, Wagner Carvalho, Mitchell Wayne, Sujogya Banerjee, Greg Landsberg, Harald Fox, Viatcheslav Stolin, H. Schellman, J. M. Kohli, K. Papageorgiou, V. V. Babintsev, G. Ginther, V. N. Evdokimov, R. E. Hall, M. Zanabria, M. H.G. Souza, A. S. Ito, Tulika Bose, N. Graf, Michael Begel, Stefan Grünendahl, Jianming Qian, J. T. Eltzroth, M. A.C. Cummings, A. A. Mayorov, L. Coney, B. Hoeneisen, Y. D. Mutaf, S. Tentindo-Repond, Vipin Bhatnagar, Andrew White, Mossadek Talby, B. Gómez, P. I. Goncharov, H. E. Montgomery, Lee Sawyer, C. Lundstedt, Carlos Avila, J. Snow, H. Haggerty, K. Soustruznik, Christos Leonidopoulos, Yu-tin Huang, S. Krzywdzinski, R. Partridge, X. Zhang, Shashikant Dugad, K. Genser, G. Briskin, Jeffrey F. Krane, R. Jesik, Sabine Crépé-Renaudin, Philip Baringer, A. Baden, G. C. Blazey, J. Womersley, A. Goussiou, S. Baffioni, K. A. Johns, C. Miao, B. Olivier, R. Yamada, V. L. Malyshev, Nikos Varelas, B. M. Sabirov, Andrei Nomerotski, Bing Zhou, E. G. Zverev, H. S. Mao, B. G. Pope, D. Karmanov, R. K. Shivpuri, John Hobbs, S. J. De Jong, S.A. Kahn, M. B. Przybycien, A. Zylberstejn, F. Lehner, D. R. Claes, Ia Iashvili, J. Barreto, B. Kothari, T. Yasuda, M. Demarteau, Mary Beth Adams, S. Doulas, D. Buchholz, Howard Gordon, Elizaveta Shabalina, Kaushik De, R. Piegaia, H. Greenlee, James C. Green, Neeti Parashar, Florian Beaudette, Marvin Johnson, P. A. Rapidis, M. Zielinski, A. Jonckheere, A. V. Kozelov, S. M. Tripathi, E. Kajfasz, Alexander Belyaev, Suyong Choi, A. P. Vorobiev, Stephan Linn, S. P. Denisov, Gregory R Snow, D. Hedin, Patrick Slattery, A. Bross, O. Peters, N. Oshima, Meenakshi Narain, K. M. Mauritz, P.F. Ermolov, Daria Zieminska, M. R. Krishnaswamy, R. D. Schamberger, V. S. Burtovoi, A. R. Clark, N. Sotnikova, M. A. Kubantsev, R. J. Genik, Sergey Chekulaev, Gregorio Bernardi, D. Denisov, J. M. Heinmiller, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Hal Evans, Thomas Ferbel, R. J. Madaras, G. A. Davis, Serban Protopopescu, V. A. Bezzubov, J. P. Negret, M. Sosebee, A. Alton, R. P. Smith, Freya Blekman, Andrew Brandt, R. Engelmann, Michael Shupe, E. A. Kozlovsky, H.E. Miettinen, Michael Hildreth, J. Estrada, K. M. Chan, Y. A. Yatsunenko, Harrison Prosper, S. Desai, T. Nunnemann, B. Baldin, W. M. Lee, A. Kharchilava, Sergey Kuleshov, Victor Daniel Elvira, V. Zutshi, D. Shpakov, N. I. Bojko, D. O'Neil, J. N. Butler, P. D. Grannis, Michael A. Strauss, Y. Kulik, Suman Bala Beri, A. Juste, B. Connolly, D. A. Wijngaarden, K. Bos, D. Edmunds, Andre Sznajder, Yuri Gershtein, P. Krivkova, and L. Babukhadia
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Physics ,Diffraction ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Scattering ,Detector ,Sigma ,HERA ,01 natural sciences ,Nuclear physics ,W and Z bosons ,biological sciences ,0103 physical sciences ,bacteria ,Rapidity ,010306 general physics ,Boson - Abstract
Using the DO detector, we have observed events produced in (p) over barp collisions that contain W or Z bosons in conjunction with very little energy deposition ("rapidity gaps") in large forward regions of the detector. The fraction of W boson events with a rapidity gap (a signature for diffraction) is 0.89 +/- (0.19)(0.17)% and the probability that the non-diffractive background fluctuated to yield the observed diffractive signal is 3 x 10(-14), corresponding to a significance of 7.5 sigma. The Z boson sample has a gap fraction of 1.44 +/- (0.61)(0.52)%, with a significance of 4.4 sigma. The diffractive events have very similar properties to the more common non-diffractive component. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- 2016