Search for Technicolor Particles Produced in Association with W Boson at CDF

TL;DR

This paper reports a search for technicolor particles produced with W bosons in proton-antiproton collisions, using data from the CDF II detector, and sets exclusion limits on certain technicolor particle masses.

Contribution

It introduces a novel search strategy for technicolor particles in association with W bosons and establishes new exclusion limits on their mass parameters.

Findings

No evidence of technicolor particles was observed.

Set 95% confidence level exclusion regions on technicolor particle masses.

The analysis techniques effectively discriminate signal from background.

Abstract

We present a search for technicolor particles decaying into $b\bar b$, $b\bar c$ or $b\bar u$ and produced in association with $W$ bosons in $p\bar p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}= 1.96 \mathrm{TeV}$. The search uses approximately $1.9 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of the dataset accumulated in the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We select events matching the $W$ + 2-jets signature and require at least one jets to be identified as $b$-quark jets. In the case of exactly one vertex $b$-tagged events, we apply a neural network flavor separator to reject contamination from charm and light quark jets. The number of tagged events and the invariant mass distributions of $W+2$ jets and dijets are consistent with the Standard Model expectations. We succeed to set a large 95% confidence level excluded region on the $\pi_{T}$ mass v.s. $\rho_{T}$ mass plane.