Measurement of the angular distribution of electrons from W→eν decays observed in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s=1.8 TeV -: art. no. 072001

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Abbott, B [1 ]
Abolins, M
Abramov, V
Acharya, BS
Adams, DL
Adams, M
Alves, GA
Amos, N
Anderson, EW
Baarmand, MM
Babintsev, VV
Babukhadia, L
Baden, A
Baldin, B
Balm, PW
Banerjee, S
Bantly, J
Barberis, E
Baringer, P
Bartlett, JF
Bassler, U
Bean, A
Begel, M
Belyaev, A
Beri, SB
Bernardi, G
Bertram, I
Besson, A
Bezzubov, VA
Bhat, PC
Bhatnagar, V
Bhattacharjee, M
Blazey, G
Blessing, S
Boehnlein, A
Bojko, NI
Borcherding, F
Brandt, A
Breedon, R
Briskin, G
Brock, R
Brooijmans, G
Bross, A
Buchholz, D
Buehler, M
Buescher, V
Burtovoi, VS
Butler, JM
Canelli, F
Carvalho, W
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[1] NYU, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[5] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[6] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[7] Charles Univ Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
[8] Acad Sci Czech Republic, Inst Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[9] Univ San Francisco Quito, Quito, Ecuador
[10] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Sci Nucl, Grenoble, France
[11] Univ Mediterranee, CPPM, IN2P3, CNRS, Marseille, France
[12] Univ Paris 06, LPNHE, Paris, France
[13] Univ Paris 07, CNRS, IN2P3, Paris, France
[14] CEA, DAPNIA, Serv Phys Particules, Saclay, France
[15] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[16] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[17] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Mumbai, India
[18] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul, South Korea
[19] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[20] FOM, Inst NIKHEF, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[21] Univ Amsterdam, NIKHEF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[22] Univ Nijmegen, NIKHEF, Nijmegen, Netherlands
[23] Inst Nucl Phys, Krakow, Poland
[24] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[25] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[26] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[27] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster, England
[28] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[29] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[30] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[31] Calif State Univ Fresno, Fresno, CA 93740 USA
[32] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[33] Univ Calif Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
[34] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[35] Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[36] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[37] Univ Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607 USA
[38] No Illinois Univ, De Kalb, IL 60115 USA
[39] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[40] Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA
[41] Univ Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA
[42] Iowa State Univ Sci & Technol, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[43] Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[44] Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[45] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[46] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[47] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
[48] Northeastern Univ, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[49] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[50] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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We present the first measurement of the electron angular distribution parameter alpha (2) in W-->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 D empty set detector during the 1994-1995 Fermilab Tevatron run. We compare our results with next-to-leadiog order perturbative QCD, which predicts an angular distribution of (1 +/- alpha (1) cos theta* + alpha (2) cos(2) theta*), whew 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.
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