Recent Results on Electroweak

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Recent Results on Electroweak Related Physics
at DØ
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Motivation for Measuring W Z Production

• Test of SM couplings
• Constrain proton PDFs
• Probe effects of NLO QCD corrections
• Better understanding of our Experiment
• Efficiencies, Backgrounds, Luminosity
• Use these signals to tune triggers algorithms
• Improved luminosity measurement
• With sufficiently small statistical systematic
  uncertainties
• Normalize to other measurements
• Preliminaries to other Run II goals
• W boson mass
• Precision EW measurements
• Top Quark Studies
• (W or Z) Higgs

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W and Z Production Mechanics
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W Z Cross Sections A Counting Experiment
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The DØ Run II Detector
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The Muon Detector

• Two regions Three layers of Scintillators and
  Drift Tubes
• Central and Forward
• A ? inside toroid magnet
• B C ? outside toroid magnet
• Muon rapidity coverage to 2
• Shielding reduces backgrounds by 50-100x

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Z 0mm Event Selection
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Z0mm Efficiencies
mcontrol
(scaled)
Z
mprobe
(scaled)
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Z0mm Cross Section

• Drell-Yan Contribution
• Correct for 121 due to photon exchange and
  photon-Z interference determined from Pythia

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W0mn Event Selection
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W0mn Cross Section
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The Calorimeter

• Liquid argon sampling
• Stable, uniform response, rad. hard
• LAr purity important (lt 0.7 ppm O2 equivalent)
• Uranium absorber (Cu/Fe for coarse hadronic)
• dense absorber hence can be compact
• Nearly compensated EM and hadronic response
• Linear response
• Hermetic with full coverage
• h lt 4.2 (q 2o)
• l int gt 7.2 (total)

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W/Z0e Event Selection
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Z0ee Cross Section
D0 Run II Preliminary

• Drell-Yan Contribution
• Small effect (1.7) in the mass window of 70 lt
  mee lt 110 GeV
• QCD Background
• Determined from data by fitting signal and
  background shape

Mee-(GeV)
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W0en Backgrounds

• Dominant background from QCD multijet events
• Estimated from data

Solve for NW
From QCD dijet sample
D0 Run II Preliminary
D0 Run II Preliminary
2.3/-1
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W0en Cross Section
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Results
Z
W
C. R. Hamberg, W.L. van Neerven and T. Matsuura,
Nucl. Phys. B359 (1991) 343
CTEQ4M PDF
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Direct Search for Z'ee

• Search for Non-SM heavy particles that decay to
  lepton pairs
• Assumes Z' couples as Z
• Previous Tevatron Run I Limit
• MZ'gt690 GeV
• Event Selection
• 2 isolated EM objects
• hlt1.1 or 1.5lthlt2.5
• ETgt25 GeV
• No track requirement necessary

D0 Run II Preliminary
M(ee) around the Z
Data Bkg (QCDDY/Z) Bkg (QCD only) 10x Z'(600GeV)
Mee-(GeV)
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Z? Search

• Form limit from the ratio of cross sections for
  (sB)Z'/(sB)Z where many of the systematic errors
  in the efficiencies and luminosity measurements
  cancel
• Applied a binned likelihood approach with Poisson
  statistics
• Remaining Uncertainties
• K-factor 5
• Az?/Az PDFs 2-3

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• Run I Discovery
• stt
• Top mass
• W helicity in top events
• tt spin correlations
• Top pT
• Searches for new physics
• (X tt and top decay)
• Run II With high precision we hope to answer
  questions such as
• Why is top so heavy?
• Is it or the third generation special?
• Is top involved with EWSB?
• Is it connected to new physics?

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Top Quark Production Mechanics

• At the Tevatron, top quarks are produced in pairs
  
• Br(t?Wb)100

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s(ttlljets) Event Selection

• Event Selection
• Two high pT isolated m or e
• ET (Z mass) cut
• ? 2 jets, ETgt20 GeV h lt 2.5
• HT S(ElT ,EjetT) cut
• Backgrounds
• WW, Z? tt determined with MC
• Z/g, Wjets and QCD from data

D0 Run II Preliminary
ET (GeV)
mmjets
e
Di-muon mass (GeV)
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s(ttlljets) Results
D0 Run II Preliminary
emjets
Jet1
Jet2
emjets
D0 Run II Preliminary
Jet Multiplicity
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s(ttljets) Event Selection (no m tag)

• Procedure
• Preselect a sample rich in W?s
• Evaluate QCD multi-jet (as f Njets )
• Estimate W4 jets assuming Berends Scaling
• Apply topological selection
• Event Selection
• Isolated lepton w/ PTgt20 GeV
• MET gt 20 GeV
• 4 jets with ETgt15 GeV hlt2.0 (2.5)
• Soft non-isolated muon tag veto
• Backgrounds
• multijet evaluated from data vs. Njets
• ejets due to fake jets (real po and g)
• mjets due to heavy flavor decays
• Estimate real W4 jets with scaling law

Estimation of QCD Background
D0 Run II Preliminary
a 0.1450.02
Scaling of W for N jets? 4 jets
D0 Run II Preliminary
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s(ttljets) Results (no m tag)
For s 7pb
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s(ttljets) Event Selection (soft m tag)

• Preselection criteria
• Same as leptons jets except soft non-isolated
  muon is not vetoed
• 3 jets with ETgt20 GeV hlt2.0
• Aplanarity gt 0.04
• HTgt110 GeV
• Soft Muon Tag
• pT(m)gt4 GeV within DRlt0.5 of a jet

For s 7pb
D0 Run II Preliminary
D0 Run II Preliminary
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s(ttX) Cross Section
Combined
Combined
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Conclusions

• Four new W Z cross section measurements
• Assuming same SM Z couplings to quarks and
  leptons, Z' is excluded at 95 CL at mZ'lt620 GeV

• Combining the observation of the top decay
  channels an excess of 3s is observed, compatible
  with a signal expectation at the 35 CL

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Backup Slides
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Zee Candidate
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W0mn Backgrounds
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W0mn Efficiencies

• Dimuon events
• 1 m w/central track match
• 1 Calorimeter m
• Determine fraction of Calorimeter muons that meet
  local muon criteria

L1
L2
L3
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Uncertainties