Search for a heavy gauge boson decaying to a charged lepton and a neutrino in 1 fb-1 of pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

2011/08/31 by ATLAS Collaboration
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.09.093

published as Phys.Lett.B 705 (2011) 28-46 · 9 pages plus author list (21 pages total), 3 figures, 6 tables, final version published in Physics Letters B. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1103.1391

arxiv created 2011/12/08 · arxiv updated 2012/08/27

Abstract

The ATLAS detector at the LHC is used to search for high-mass states, such as heavy charged gauge bosons (W'), decaying to a charged lepton (electron or muon) and a neutrino. Results are presented based on the analysis of pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.04 fb^-1. No excess beyond Standard Model expectations is observed. A W' with Sequential Standard Model couplings is excluded at the 95% confidence level for masses up to 2.15 TeV.

Citations

• Search for high-mass states with one lepton plus missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector