Published in:
Physical Review D 70,3 (2004) 032004;
Link to original published article:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.032004
Abstract
We present a measurement of the polar-angle distribution of leptons from W boson decay, as a function of the W transverse momentum. The measurement uses an 80+/-4 pb(-1) sample of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV collected by the CDF detector and includes data from both the W-->e+nu and W-->mu+nu decay channels. We fit the W boson transverse mass distribution to a set of templates from a Monte Carlo event generator and detector simulation in several ranges of the W transverse momentum. The measurement agrees with the standard model expectation, whereby the ratio of longitudinally to transversely polarized W bosons, in the Collins-Soper W rest frame, increases with the W transverse momentum at a rate of approximately 15% per 10 GeV/c.
Keywords
qed radiative-corrections;; universal monte-carlo;; high-pt w;; electromagnetic calorimeter;; hadronic collisions;; cdf;; detector;; system;; fermilab;; chamber
Date of this Version
January 2004