Session L9: LHC Searches
3:30 PM–5:18 PM, Sunday, May 1, 2011
Room: Grand G
Sponsoring Unit:
DPF
Chair: Nancy Marinelli, University of Notre Dame
Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.APR.L9.4
Abstract: L9.00004 : Search for a heavy gauge boson $W^{\prime}$ in the final state with an electron and large missing transverse energy in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 7$~TeV
4:06 PM–4:18 PM
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Abstract 
Author:
Darren Puigh
(Cornell University)
A search for a heavy gauge boson $W^{\prime}$ has been conducted by the CMS experiment at the LHC in the decay channel with an electron and large transverse energy imbalance, using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb$^{-1}$. No excess above standard model expectations is seen in the transverse mass distribution of the electron-(missing $E_T$) system. Assuming standard-model-like couplings and decay branching fractions, a $W^{\prime}$ boson with a mass less than 1.36 TeV/$c^2$ is excluded at 95\% confidence level.
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