Measurement of the Zgamma --> nunu[over ]gamma production cross section and limits on anomalous ZZgamma and Zgammagamma couplings in pp[over] collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV

V M Abazov; B Abbott; M Abolins; B S Acharya; M Adams; T Adams; E Aguilo; M Ahsan; G D Alexeev; G Alkhazov; A Alton; G Alverson; G A Alves; M Anastasoaie; L S Ancu; T Andeen; M S Anzelc; M Aoki; Y Arnoud; M Arov; M Arthaud; A Askew; B Asman; O Atramentov; C Avila; J Backusmayes; F Badaud; L Bagby; B Baldin; D V Bandurin; P Banerjee; S Banerjee; E Barberis; A-F Barfuss; P Bargassa; P Baringer; J Barreto; J F Bartlett; U Bassler; D Bauer; S Beale; A Bean; M Begalli; M Begel; C Belanger-Champagne; L Bellantoni; A Bellavance; J A Benitez; S B Beri; G Bernardi; R Bernhard; I Bertram; M Besançon; R Beuselinck; V A Bezzubov; P C Bhat; V Bhatnagar; G Blazey; S Blessing; K Bloom; A Boehnlein; D Boline; T A Bolton; E E Boos; G Borissov; T Bose; A Brandt; R Brock; G Brooijmans; A Bross; D Brown; X B Bu; N J Buchanan; D Buchholz; M Buehler; V Buescher; V Bunichev; S Burdin; T H Burnett; C P Buszello; P Calfayan; B Calpas; S Calvet; J Cammin; M A Carrasco-Lizarraga; E Carrera; W Carvalho; B C K Casey; H Castilla-Valdez; S Chakrabarti; D Chakraborty; K M Chan; A Chandra; E Cheu; D K Cho; S Choi; B Choudhary; L Christofek; T Christoudias; S Cihangir; D Claes; J Clutter; M Cooke; W E Cooper; M Corcoran; F Couderc; M-C Cousinou; S Crépé-Renaudin; V Cuplov; D Cutts; M Cwiok; A Das; G Davies; K De; S J de Jong; E De La Cruz-Burelo; K Devaughan; F Déliot; M Demarteau; R Demina; D Denisov; S P Denisov; S Desai; H T Diehl; M Diesburg; A Dominguez; T Dorland; A Dubey; L V Dudko; L Duflot; D Duggan; A Duperrin; S Dutt; A Dyshkant; M Eads; D Edmunds; J Ellison; V D Elvira; Y Enari; S Eno; P Ermolov; M Escalier; H Evans; A Evdokimov; V N Evdokimov; A V Ferapontov; T Ferbel; F Fiedler; F Filthaut; W Fisher; H E Fisk; M Fortner; H Fox; S Fu; S Fuess; T Gadfort; C F Galea; A Garcia-Bellido; V Gavrilov; P Gay; W Geist; W Geng; C E Gerber; Y Gershtein; D Gillberg; G Ginther; B Gómez; A Goussiou; P D Grannis; H Greenlee; Z D Greenwood; E M Gregores; G Grenier; Ph Gris; J-F Grivaz; A Grohsjean; S Grünendahl; M W Grünewald; F Guo; J Guo; G Gutierrez; P Gutierrez; A Haas; N J Hadley; P Haefner; S Hagopian; J Haley; I Hall; R E Hall; L Han; K Harder; A Harel; J M Hauptman; J Hays; T Hebbeker; D Hedin; J G Hegeman; A P Heinson; U Heintz; C Hensel; K Herner; G Hesketh; M D Hildreth; R Hirosky; T Hoang; J D Hobbs; B Hoeneisen; M Hohlfeld; S Hossain; P Houben; Y Hu; Z Hubacek; N Huske; V Hynek; I Iashvili; R Illingworth; A S Ito; S Jabeen; M Jaffré; S Jain; K Jakobs; D Jamin; C Jarvis; R Jesik; K Johns; C Johnson; M Johnson; D Johnston; A Jonckheere; P Jonsson; A Juste; E Kajfasz; D Karmanov; P A Kasper; I Katsanos; V Kaushik; R Kehoe; S Kermiche; N Khalatyan; A Khanov; A Kharchilava; Y N Kharzheev; D Khatidze; T J Kim; M H Kirby; M Kirsch; B Klima; J M Kohli; J-P Konrath; A V Kozelov; J Kraus; T Kuhl; A Kumar; A Kupco; T Kurca; V A Kuzmin; J Kvita; F Lacroix; D Lam; S Lammers; G Landsberg; P Lebrun; W M Lee; A Leflat; J Lellouch; J Li; L Li; Q Z Li; S M Lietti; J K Lim; D Lincoln; J Linnemann; V V Lipaev; R Lipton; Y Liu; Z Liu; A Lobodenko; M Lokajicek; P Love; H J Lubatti; R Luna-Garcia; A L Lyon; A K A Maciel; D Mackin; P Mättig; A Magerkurth; P K Mal; H B Malbouisson; S Malik; V L Malyshev; Y Maravin; B Martin; R McCarthy; M M Meijer; A Melnitchouk; L Mendoza; P G Mercadante; M Merkin; K W Merritt; A Meyer; J Meyer; J Mitrevski; R K Mommsen; N K Mondal; R W Moore; T Moulik; G S Muanza; M Mulhearn; O Mundal; L Mundim; E Nagy; M Naimuddin; M Narain; H A Neal; J P Negret; P Neustroev; H Nilsen; H Nogima; S F Novaes; T Nunnemann; D C O'Neil; G Obrant; C Ochando; D Onoprienko; J Orduna; N Oshima; N Osman; J Osta; R Otec; G J Otero Y Garzón; M Owen; M Padilla; P Padley; M Pangilinan; N Parashar; S-J Park; S K Park; J Parsons; R Partridge; N Parua; A Patwa; G Pawloski; B Penning; M Perfilov; K Peters; Y Peters; P Pétroff; R Piegaia; J Piper; M-A Pleier; P L M Podesta-Lerma; V M Podstavkov; Y Pogorelov; M-E Pol; P Polozov; A V Popov; C Potter; W L Prado da Silva; S Protopopescu; J Qian; A Quadt; B Quinn; A Rakitine; M S Rangel; K Ranjan; P N Ratoff; P Renkel; P Rich; M Rijssenbeek; I Ripp-Baudot; F Rizatdinova; S Robinson; R F Rodrigues; M Rominsky; C Royon; P Rubinov; R Ruchti; G Safronov; G Sajot; A Sánchez-Hernández; M P Sanders; B Sanghi; G Savage; L Sawyer; T Scanlon; D Schaile; R D Schamberger; Y Scheglov; H Schellman; T Schliephake; S Schlobohm; C Schwanenberger; R Schwienhorst; J Sekaric; H Severini; E Shabalina; M Shamim; V Shary; A A Shchukin; R K Shivpuri; V Siccardi; V Simak; V Sirotenko; P Skubic; P Slattery; D Smirnov; G R Snow; J Snow; S Snyder; S Söldner-Rembold; L Sonnenschein; A Sopczak; M Sosebee; K Soustruznik; B Spurlock; J Stark; V Stolin; D A Stoyanova; J Strandberg; S Strandberg; M A Strang; E Strauss; M Strauss; R Ströhmer; D Strom; L Stutte; S Sumowidagdo; P Svoisky; A Tanasijczuk; W Taylor; B Tiller; F Tissandier; M Titov; V V Tokmenin; I Torchiani; D Tsybychev; B Tuchming; C Tully; P M Tuts; R Unalan; L Uvarov; S Uvarov; S Uzunyan; B Vachon; P J van den Berg; R Van Kooten; W M van Leeuwen; N Varelas; E W Varnes; I A Vasilyev; P Verdier; L S Vertogradov; M Verzocchi; D Vilanova; P Vint; P Vokac; M Voutilainen; R Wagner; H D Wahl; M H L S Wang; J Warchol; G Watts; M Wayne; G Weber; M Weber; L Welty-Rieger; A Wenger; M Wetstein; A White; D Wicke; M R J Williams; G W Wilson; S J Wimpenny; M Wobisch; D R Wood; T R Wyatt; Y Xie; C Xu; S Yacoob; R Yamada; W-C Yang; T Yasuda; Y A Yatsunenko; Z Ye; H Yin; K Yip; H D Yoo; S W Youn; J Yu; C Zeitnitz; S Zelitch; T Zhao; B Zhou; J Zhu; M Zielinski; D Zieminska; L Zivkovic; V Zutshi; E G Zverev; D0 Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.201802

Measurement of the Zgamma --> nunu[over ]gamma production cross section and limits on anomalous ZZgamma and Zgammagamma couplings in pp[over] collisions at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 May 22;102(20):201802. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.201802. Epub 2009 May 22.

Authors

V M Abazov¹, B Abbott, M Abolins, B S Acharya, M Adams, T Adams, E Aguilo, M Ahsan, G D Alexeev, G Alkhazov, A Alton, G Alverson, G A Alves, M Anastasoaie, L S Ancu, T Andeen, M S Anzelc, M Aoki, Y Arnoud, M Arov, M Arthaud, A Askew, B Asman, O Atramentov, C Avila, J Backusmayes, F Badaud, L Bagby, B Baldin, D V Bandurin, P Banerjee, S Banerjee, E Barberis, A-F Barfuss, P Bargassa, P Baringer, J Barreto, J F Bartlett, U Bassler, D Bauer, S Beale, A Bean, M Begalli, M Begel, C Belanger-Champagne, L Bellantoni, A Bellavance, J A Benitez, S B Beri, G Bernardi, R Bernhard, I Bertram, M Besançon, R Beuselinck, V A Bezzubov, P C Bhat, V Bhatnagar, G Blazey, S Blessing, K Bloom, A Boehnlein, D Boline, T A Bolton, E E Boos, G Borissov, T Bose, A Brandt, R Brock, G Brooijmans, A Bross, D Brown, X B Bu, N J Buchanan, D Buchholz, M Buehler, V Buescher, V Bunichev, S Burdin, T H Burnett, C P Buszello, P Calfayan, B Calpas, S Calvet, J Cammin, M A Carrasco-Lizarraga, E Carrera, W Carvalho, B C K Casey, H Castilla-Valdez, S Chakrabarti, D Chakraborty, K M Chan, A Chandra, E Cheu, D K Cho, S Choi, B Choudhary, L Christofek, T Christoudias, S Cihangir, D Claes, J Clutter, M Cooke, W E Cooper, M Corcoran, F Couderc, M-C Cousinou, S Crépé-Renaudin, V Cuplov, D Cutts, M Cwiok, A Das, G Davies, K De, S J de Jong, E De La Cruz-Burelo, K Devaughan, F Déliot, M Demarteau, R Demina, D Denisov, S P Denisov, S Desai, H T Diehl, M Diesburg, A Dominguez, T Dorland, A Dubey, L V Dudko, L Duflot, D Duggan, A Duperrin, S Dutt, A Dyshkant, M Eads, D Edmunds, J Ellison, V D Elvira, Y Enari, S Eno, P Ermolov, M Escalier, H Evans, A Evdokimov, V N Evdokimov, A V Ferapontov, T Ferbel, F Fiedler, F Filthaut, W Fisher, H E Fisk, M Fortner, H Fox, S Fu, S Fuess, T Gadfort, C F Galea, A Garcia-Bellido, V Gavrilov, P Gay, W Geist, W Geng, C E Gerber, Y Gershtein, D Gillberg, G Ginther, B Gómez, A Goussiou, P D Grannis, H Greenlee, Z D Greenwood, E M Gregores, G Grenier, Ph Gris, J-F Grivaz, A Grohsjean, S Grünendahl, M W Grünewald, F Guo, J Guo, G Gutierrez, P Gutierrez, A Haas, N J Hadley, P Haefner, S Hagopian, J Haley, I Hall, R E Hall, L Han, K Harder, A Harel, J M Hauptman, J Hays, T Hebbeker, D Hedin, J G Hegeman, A P Heinson, U Heintz, C Hensel, K Herner, G Hesketh, M D Hildreth, R Hirosky, T Hoang, J D Hobbs, B Hoeneisen, M Hohlfeld, S Hossain, P Houben, Y Hu, Z Hubacek, N Huske, V Hynek, I Iashvili, R Illingworth, A S Ito, S Jabeen, M Jaffré, S Jain, K Jakobs, D Jamin, C Jarvis, R Jesik, K Johns, C Johnson, M Johnson, D Johnston, A Jonckheere, P Jonsson, A Juste, E Kajfasz, D Karmanov, P A Kasper, I Katsanos, V Kaushik, R Kehoe, S Kermiche, N Khalatyan, A Khanov, A Kharchilava, Y N Kharzheev, D Khatidze, T J Kim, M H Kirby, M Kirsch, B Klima, J M Kohli, J-P Konrath, A V Kozelov, J Kraus, T Kuhl, A Kumar, A Kupco, T Kurca, V A Kuzmin, J Kvita, F Lacroix, D Lam, S Lammers, G Landsberg, P Lebrun, W M Lee, A Leflat, J Lellouch, J Li, L Li, Q Z Li, S M Lietti, J K Lim, D Lincoln, J Linnemann, V V Lipaev, R Lipton, Y Liu, Z Liu, A Lobodenko, M Lokajicek, P Love, H J Lubatti, R Luna-Garcia, A L Lyon, A K A Maciel, D Mackin, P Mättig, A Magerkurth, P K Mal, H B Malbouisson, S Malik, V L Malyshev, Y Maravin, B Martin, R McCarthy, M M Meijer, A Melnitchouk, L Mendoza, P G Mercadante, M Merkin, K W Merritt, A Meyer, J Meyer, J Mitrevski, R K Mommsen, N K Mondal, R W Moore, T Moulik, G S Muanza, M Mulhearn, O Mundal, L Mundim, E Nagy, M Naimuddin, M Narain, H A Neal, J P Negret, P Neustroev, H Nilsen, H Nogima, S F Novaes, T Nunnemann, D C O'Neil, G Obrant, C Ochando, D Onoprienko, J Orduna, N Oshima, N Osman, J Osta, R Otec, G J Otero Y Garzón, M Owen, M Padilla, P Padley, M Pangilinan, N Parashar, S-J Park, S K Park, J Parsons, R Partridge, N Parua, A Patwa, G Pawloski, B Penning, M Perfilov, K Peters, Y Peters, P Pétroff, R Piegaia, J Piper, M-A Pleier, P L M Podesta-Lerma, V M Podstavkov, Y Pogorelov, M-E Pol, P Polozov, A V Popov, C Potter, W L Prado da Silva, S Protopopescu, J Qian, A Quadt, B Quinn, A Rakitine, M S Rangel, K Ranjan, P N Ratoff, P Renkel, P Rich, M Rijssenbeek, I Ripp-Baudot, F Rizatdinova, S Robinson, R F Rodrigues, M Rominsky, C Royon, P Rubinov, R Ruchti, G Safronov, G Sajot, A Sánchez-Hernández, M P Sanders, B Sanghi, G Savage, L Sawyer, T Scanlon, D Schaile, R D Schamberger, Y Scheglov, H Schellman, T Schliephake, S Schlobohm, C Schwanenberger, R Schwienhorst, J Sekaric, H Severini, E Shabalina, M Shamim, V Shary, A A Shchukin, R K Shivpuri, V Siccardi, V Simak, V Sirotenko, P Skubic, P Slattery, D Smirnov, G R Snow, J Snow, S Snyder, S Söldner-Rembold, L Sonnenschein, A Sopczak, M Sosebee, K Soustruznik, B Spurlock, J Stark, V Stolin, D A Stoyanova, J Strandberg, S Strandberg, M A Strang, E Strauss, M Strauss, R Ströhmer, D Strom, L Stutte, S Sumowidagdo, P Svoisky, A Tanasijczuk, W Taylor, B Tiller, F Tissandier, M Titov, V V Tokmenin, I Torchiani, D Tsybychev, B Tuchming, C Tully, P M Tuts, R Unalan, L Uvarov, S Uvarov, S Uzunyan, B Vachon, P J van den Berg, R Van Kooten, W M van Leeuwen, N Varelas, E W Varnes, I A Vasilyev, P Verdier, L S Vertogradov, M Verzocchi, D Vilanova, P Vint, P Vokac, M Voutilainen, R Wagner, H D Wahl, M H L S Wang, J Warchol, G Watts, M Wayne, G Weber, M Weber, L Welty-Rieger, A Wenger, M Wetstein, A White, D Wicke, M R J Williams, G W Wilson, S J Wimpenny, M Wobisch, D R Wood, T R Wyatt, Y Xie, C Xu, S Yacoob, R Yamada, W-C Yang, T Yasuda, Y A Yatsunenko, Z Ye, H Yin, K Yip, H D Yoo, S W Youn, J Yu, C Zeitnitz, S Zelitch, T Zhao, B Zhou, J Zhu, M Zielinski, D Zieminska, L Zivkovic, V Zutshi, E G Zverev; D0 Collaboration

Affiliation

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.

PMID: 19519019
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.201802

Abstract

We present the first observation of the Zgamma --> nunu[over ]gamma process at the Fermilab Tevatron at 5.1 standard deviations significance, based on 3.6 fb;{-1} of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron pp[over ] Collider at sqrt[s] = 1.96 TeV. The measured Zgamma production cross section multiplied by the branching fraction of Z --> nunu[over] is 32 +/- 9(stat + syst) +/-2 (lumi) fb for the photon E_{T} > 90 GeV. It is in agreement with the standard model prediction of 39 +/- 4 fb. We set limits on anomalous trilinear Zgammagamma and ZZgamma gauge boson couplings, most of which are the most restrictive to date.