First Search for Exotic Z Boson Decays into Photons and Neutral Pions in Hadron Collisions
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Aaltonen, Timo Antero; Amerio, Silvia; Amidei, Dante; Anastassov, Anton; Annovi, Alberto; Antos, Jaroslav; Apollinari, Giorgio; Appel, Jeffrey A.; Arisawa, Tetsuo; Artikov, A.; Asaadi, Jonathan Abraham; Casal Laraña, Bruno; Cuevas Maestro, Francisco Javier; Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio; Palencia Cortezón, José Enrique; Ruiz Jimeno, Alberto


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2014-03Derechos
© 2014 American Physical Society
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Physical Review Letters, vol. 112, iss. 11, art. num. 111803. (2014)
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American Physical Society
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Abstract:
A search for forbidden and exotic Z boson decays in the diphoton mass spectrum is presented for the first time in hadron collisions, based on data corresponding to 10.0 fb−1 of integrated luminosity from proton-antiproton collisions at s√=1.96 TeV collected by the CDF experiment. No evidence of signal is observed, and 95% credibility level Bayesian upper limits are set on the branching ratios of decays of the Z boson to a photon and neutral pion (which is detected as a photon), a pair of photons, and a pair of neutral pions. The observed branching ratio limits are 2.01×10−5 for Z→π0γ, 1.46×10−5 for Z→γγ, and 1.52×10−5 for Z→π0π0. The Z→π0γ and Z→γγ limits improve the most stringent results from other experiments by factors of 2.6 and 3.6, respectively. The Z→π0π0 branching ratio limit is the first experimental result on this decay.
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