Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1999-07-15
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Contributed paper to EPS99 and Lepton-Photon99, 15 pages
Scientific paper
We present a preliminary measurement of the electron angular distribution parameter alpha2 in W to e nu events using data collected by the D0 detector during the 1994--1995 Tevatron run. We compare our results with next-to-leading order perturbative QCD, which predicts an angular distribution of 1 +/- alpha1 cos theta* +alpha_2 cos^2 theta*, where theta* is the angle between the charged lepton and the antiproton in the Collins-Soper frame. In the presence of QCD corrections, the parameters alpha1 and alpha2 become functions of pT(W), the W boson transverse momentum. We present the first measurement of alpha_2 as a function of pT(W). This measurement is of importance, because it provides a test of next-to-leading order QCD corrections which are a non-negligible contribution to the W mass measurement.
"D0 Collaboration
Abbott Benjamin
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