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Measurement of the angular distribution of electrons fromW→eνdecays observed inpp¯collisions ats=1.8TeV
- Source :
- Physical Review D. 63
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2001.
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Abstract
- We present the first measurement of the electron angular distribution parameter α 2 in W→eν events produced in proton-antiproton collisions as a function of the W boson transverse momentum. Our analysis is based on data collected using the DO detector during the 1994–1995 Fermilab Tevatron run. We compare our results with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD, which predicts an angular distribution of (1±α 1 cosθ ∗ +α 2 cos 2 θ ∗ ), where θ ∗ is the polar angle of the electron in the Collins-Soper frame. In the presence of QCD corrections, the parameters α 1 and α 2 become functions of p T W , the W boson transverse momentum. This measurement provides a test of next-to-leading order QCD corrections which are a non-negligible contribution to the W boson mass measurement.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Quantum chromodynamics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Particle physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
High Energy Physics::Phenomenology
Tevatron
Perturbative QCD
Electron
01 natural sciences
Nuclear physics
Particle decay
0103 physical sciences
High Energy Physics::Experiment
Fermilab
Polar coordinate system
010306 general physics
Parametrization
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10894918 and 05562821
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physical Review D
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d85a40145c9be7332d57523aa01a6125