Search for New Physics in High <em>p_T</em> Like-Sign Dilepton Events at CDF II

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Search for New Physics in High p

Like-Sign Dilepton Events at CDF II

CDF Collaboration

CLARK, Allan Geoffrey (Collab.), et al.

Abstract

We present a search for new physics in events with two high pT leptons of the same electric charge, using data with an integrated luminosity of 6.1  fb−1. The observed data are consistent with standard model predictions. We set 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of doubly charged scalars decaying to like-sign dileptons, mH±±>190–245  GeV/c2, assuming 100% BR to ee, μμ or eμ.

CDF Collaboration, CLARK, Allan Geoffrey (Collab.), et al . Search for New Physics in High p

Like-Sign Dilepton Events at CDF II. Physical Review Letters , 2011, vol. 107, no. 18, p.

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DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.181801

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1Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, China

2Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

3University of Athens, 157 71 Athens, Greece

4Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies, ICREA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

5Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA

6aIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy

6bUniversity of Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy

7University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA

8University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92627, USA

9University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA

10Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, CSIC-University of Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain

11Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA

12Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA

13Comenius University, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia; Institute of Experimental Physics, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia

14Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia

15Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA

16Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA

17University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA

18Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-00044 Frascati, Italy

19University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

20Glasgow University, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom

21Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

22Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland

23University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

24The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA

25Institut fu¨r Experimentelle Kernphysik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

26Center for High Energy Physics: Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea;

Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea;

Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea;

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806, Korea;

Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Korea;

Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Korea

27Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

28University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom

29University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

30Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, E-28040 Madrid, Spain

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31Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

32Institute of Particle Physics: McGill University, Montre´al, Que´bec, Canada H3A 2T8;

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6;

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7;

and TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 2A3

33University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

34Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA

35Institution for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ITEP, Moscow 117259, Russia

36University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA

37Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA

38The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA

39Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

40Osaka City University, Osaka 588, Japan

41University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom

42aIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento, I-35131 Padova, Italy

42bUniversity of Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy

43PNHE, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/IN2P3-CNRS, UMR7585, Paris, F-75252 France

44University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

45aIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

45bUniversity of Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

45cUniversity of Siena, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

45dScuola Normale Superiore, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

46University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA

47Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA

48University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA

49The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10065, USA

50aIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma 1, I-00185 Roma, Italy

50bSapienza Universita` di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy

51Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA

52Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA

53aIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Trieste/Udine, I-34100 Trieste, I-33100 Udine, Italy

53bUniversity of Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy

54University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

55Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA

1University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906, USA

57Waseda University, Tokyo 169, Japan

58Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA

59University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

60Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA (Received 30 July 2011; published 25 October 2011)

We present a search for new physics in events with two highp_T leptons of the same electric charge, using data with an integrated luminosity of6:1 fb¹. The observed data are consistent with standard model predictions. We set 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of doubly charged scalars decaying to like- sign dileptons,m_H>190–245 GeV=c², assuming 100% BR toee,ore.

DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.181801 PACS numbers: 12.60.i, 13.85.Rm, 14.65.q, 14.80.j

A wide variety of models of new physics predict events with two like-sign leptons, a signature which has very low backgrounds from the standard model. Examples include doubly charged Higgs bosons [1], supersymmetry [2], heavy neutrinos [3], like-sign top quark production [4], and fourth-generation uarks [5].

CDF examined the like-sign dilepton data with integrated luminosity of110 pb¹in Run I [6] and1 fb¹ in Run II [7], observing in Run II a slight excess of events above the standard model expectation (44 observed, 33:24:7expected).

In this Letter, we present a study of events with like-sign dileptons with an integrated luminosity of 6:1 fb¹ col- lected by the CDF II detector. We search for a localized excess of events in a model-independent manner by com- paring the observed events to the standard model predic- tion using a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test in several kinematic variables and assessing the statistical consistency. In addi- tion, we set limits on a specific model: pair production of doubly charged scalars which decay to two like-sign charged leptons [1]. These limits supersede those from CDF in 240 pb¹ [8] and are stronger than those from

D0 in1:1 fb¹ [9] and CMS in36 pb¹ [10] by an order of magnitude. A companion article [11] includes interpre- tations for like-sign top quark production and supersym- metric processes.

Events were recorded by CDF II [12,13], a general purpose detector designed to study collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron pp collider at ffiffiffi

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¼1:96 TeV. A charged-particle tracking system immersed in a 1.4 T magnetic field consists of a silicon microstrip tracker and a drift chamber. Electromagnetic and hadronic calorime- ters surround the tracking system and measure particle energies. Drift chambers located outside the calorimeters detect muons. We examine data taken between August

2002 and September 2010, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of6:1 fb¹.

The data acquisition system is triggered by e or candidates [14] with transverse momentum [13], p_T, greater than 18 GeV=c. Electrons and muons are recon- structed offline and selected if they have a pseudorapidity [13],, magnitude less than 1.1,p_Tgreater than20 GeV=c and satisfy the standard CDF identification and isolation requirements [14]. An additional requirement is made to suppress electrons from photon conversions, by rejecting electron candidates with a nearly collinear intersecting reconstructed track. Jets are reconstructed in the calorime- ter using theJETCLU[15] algorithm with a clustering radius statistical and systematic contributions. Entries written as three dots are negligible.

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of 0.4 in azimuth-pseudorapidity space [13] and calibrated [16]. Jets are selected if they have p_T 15 GeV=c and jj<2:4. Missing transverse momentum [17], 6E_T, is reconstructed using fully corrected calorimeter and muon information [14].

We select events with at least two isolated leptons (electrons or muons), two of which have the same electric charge. The leading lepton must have pT>20 GeV=c, jj<1:1and be isolated in both the calorimeter and the tracker. The second lepton must satisfy the same require- ments, with the exception that it need only have p_T >

10 GeV=c. We require that the two leptons come from the same primary vertex and have a dilepton invariant mass m‘‘ of at least 25 GeV=c² to reduce backgrounds from pair production of bottom quarks. Finally, we reject events with three or more leptons if they contain a pair of opposite-sign leptons or like-signed electrons in the win- dow, m‘‘2 ½86;96GeV=c². Like-signed electron pairs may be produced by the radiation of a hard photon, see below, which is negligible for muons. In each event, we calculateH_T, the scalar sum of the leptonp_T, the jet E_T, and the missing transverse momentum.

Irreducible backgrounds to the like-sign dilepton signa- ture with prompt like-sign leptons are rare in the SM; they are largely fromWZandZZproduction where one or two final state leptons are not seen in the detector. These back- grounds are modeled using simulated events generated by

PYTHIA [18] with the detector response simulated with a

GEANT-based algorithmCDFSIM[19].

The dominant reducible background comes from Wþ jets production orttproduction with semileptonic decays, with one prompt lepton (e.g.,W !‘ort!Wb!‘b) and a second lepton due to the semileptonic decay of ab- orc-quark hadron (e.g.,bþX!cþX) which is mis- identified as a prompt lepton from realWorZboson decay.

This (‘‘fake’’) background is described using a lepton misidentification model from inclusive jet data applied to Wþjet events, validated in orthogonal jet samples and in events with like-sign dileptons but low invariant mass:

m_‘‘2 ½15;25GeV=c².

The second largest source of background comes from the effective charge flip of an electron or positron due to

hard photon radiation followed by asymmetric pair crea- tion, such ase_hard!e_soft!e_softe_softe^þ_hardwhere the track for thee^þ_harddetermines the charge. This mechanism is well described by the detector simulation, and is validated in events with like-sign electron pairs which have a conversion-tagged electron. The major contributions via this mechanism are from Z=þjets and tt production with fully leptonic decays. Estimates of the backgrounds fromZ=þjets processes are modeled using simulated events generated byPYTHIAnormalized to data in opposite- sign events. The detector response for bothZþjets andtt processes is evaluated using CDFSIM, where, to avoid double counting, the like-sign leptons are required to TABLE II. Results of KS-distance test for standard model

prediction. The maximum KS distance and corresponding p value are given for several kinematic distributions presented in this analysis.

Distribution Total‘‘ ee e

m_‘‘ 0.11 (79%) 0.22 (47%) 0.23 (46%) 0.30 (59%) 6ET 0.19 (34%) 0.23 (27%) 0.24 (32%) 0.21 (69%) Njets 0.19 (56%) 0.31 (31%) 0.20 (57%) 0.21 (84%) Lepton 1p_T 0.16 (49%) 0.18 (47%) 0.25 (30%) 0.26 (60%) Lepton 2p_T 0.12 (66%) 0.21 (41%) 0.23 (33%) 0.40 (33%) H_T 0.15 (45%) 0.22 (34%) 0.22 (32%) 0.24 (58%)

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FIG. 2 (color online). The observed and expected standard model spectra in the ee, , and e channels. The doubly charged Higgs boson signal is shown for a range of masses. The VV contribution includesWW,WZ,ZZ, andW.

originate from theW orZboson decays rather than from misidentified jets.

An additional contribution to the background is due to associated production of aW boson with a prompt photon.

If theWboson decays to an electron (muon) and the photon converts too early to be identified as a conversion, the event can be reconstructed with a like-sign ee (e) signature.

The rate ofW production and the efficiency for finding conversions is validated in a sample of like-sign electron events with a conversion-tagged electron.

Backgrounds from charge mismeasurement are insig- nificant, as the charge of a particle with momentum of 100 GeV=c is mismeasured at a rate less than 110⁵[20].

The dominant systematic uncertainty is the 50% uncer- tainty of the lepton misidentification rate, which is mea- sured in the inclusive jet sample but may contain prompt leptons from W !l and Z!‘‘ boson decays. This gives a 20% uncertainty on the total background.

Additional uncertainties are due to the jet energy scale [16], contributions from additional interactions, and de- scriptions of initial and final state radiation [21] and un- certainties in the parton distribution functions [22,23].

TableIshows the observed and predicted event yields.

Figure 1 shows kinematic distributions of observed and predicted like-sign lepton events.

We calculate the maximum Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) distance for each of the distributionsm_‘‘,6E_T,N_jets, lepton p_T, and H_T. A large KS-distance value would indicate a localized excess in one of these variables, though this test is not sensitive to discrepancies in the total yield. In each case, the standard modelpvalue (probability to observe a result at least this discrepant from the standard model) does not indicate significant deviation from the background- only hypothesis; see TableII.

This larger data set does not show evidence of the excess seen in the previous analysis [7] that was based on1 fb¹ of integrated luminosity. The background from misidenti- fied leptons was calculated using a different technique, which gives a larger estimate of events with misidentified leptons in the original data set than the previous analysis, though consistent within systematic uncertainties.

Observing no excess, we report our sensitivity in terms of limits on doubly charged scalar bosons decaying to like- sign electron pairs, muon pairs or electron-muon pairs.

Simulated events are generated with MADEVENT [24], showering and hadronization is performed by PYTHIA

passed through the CDF II full detector simulation.

Figure2shows the observed and expected standard model spectra in theee,, andechannels.

The largest uncertainties on the signal model are due to energy resolution and lepton identification efficiencies, which are minor compared to the background uncertain- ties. In each case, we treat the unknown underlying quan- tity as a nuisance parameter and measure the distortion of the dilepton mass spectrum for positive and negative fluctuations.

The dilepton mass spectrum is in good agreement with the standard model prediction, and we calculate 95% C.L.

upper limits on the production cross section of doubly sections for singlet (₁), doublet (₂), triplet (₃) production,

expected and observed upper limits at 95% C.L. in theee; e and channels. All cross sections are in femtobarns and assume 100% BR to each channel.

m_H Theory Observed Expected

(GeV=c²) 1 2 3 ⁹⁵_ee ⁹⁵_e ^{95 95}_ee ⁹⁵_e ⁹⁵

100 48 55 120 12 4.2 3.1 5.7 3.8 2.8

120 23 27 55 7.4 2.3 2.2 3.3 2.6 2.2

140 11 14 26 2.0 2.2 3.4 2.4 2.2 1.6

160 6.0 7.2 14 2.4 2.2 3.2 1.5 1.9 1.4

180 3.2 3.9 7.7 2.3 2.2 2.6 1.5 1.7 1.5 200 1.8 2.2 4.2 1.2 2.4 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.5 220 1.0 1.2 2.4 2.3 3.4 1.2 1.4 1.1 1.4 240 0.6 0.7 1.4 1.7 4.4 1.2 1.4 1.1 1.3 260 0.3 0.4 0.8 1.2 4.0 1.1 1.5 1.0 1.2

TABLE IV. Lower limits at the 95% C.L. onHmasses by channel, for singlet, doublet and triplet theories. All in units of GeV=c². In each case, we assume 100% BR to each channel.

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FIG. 3 (color online). Observed upper limits at 95% C.L. on the production cross section for a doubly charged Higgs boson times the branching fraction to ee, or e exclusively, compared to results from D0 [9]. Also shown are next-to-lead- ing-order theoretical calculations of the cross section, assuming the Higgs boson is a member of a singlet, doublet, or triplet.

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charged Higgs bosons, using frequentist statistics with the unified ordering scheme [25]. The Z= coupling and therefore production cross section of the doubly charged Higgs boson depends on whether it is a member of a singlet, doublet, or triplet, as shown in Fig. 3 and TablesIIIandIV.

In summary, we present a search for new physics in events with two highpTleptons of the same electric charge using data with an integrated luminosity of 6:1 fb¹. The observed data are consistent with standard model predictions. We set 95% C.L. lower limits on the mass of doubly charged scalars decaying to like-sign dileptons, m_H>190–245 GeV=c², assuming 100% branching ra- tio (BR) toee,ore.

We thank the Fermilab staff and the technical staffs of the participating institutions for their vital contributions.

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation; the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the National Science Council of the Republic of China; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the A. P.

Sloan Foundation; the Bundesministerium fu¨r Bildung und Forschung, Germany; the Korean World Class University Program, the National Research Foundation of Korea; the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Society, UK; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules/CNRS; the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacı´on, and Programa ConsoliderIngenio 2010, Spain; the Slovak R&D Agency; and the Academy of Finland.

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