Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2000-09-14
Phys.Rev.D63:072001,2001
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
24 pages, paper submitted to PRD
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.63.072001
We present the first measurement of the electron angular distribution parameter alpha_2 in W to e nu events produced in proton-antiproton collisions as a function of the W boson transverse momentum. Our analysis is based on data collected using the D0 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 +/- alpha_1 cos theta* + alpha_2 cos^2 theta*), where theta* is the polar angle of the electron in the Collins-Soper frame. In the presence of QCD corrections, the parameters alpha_1 and alpha_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.
Abbott Benjamin
collaboration D0
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