Diffractive W and Z Production at the Fermilab Tevatron

Abstract

We report on a measurement of the fraction of events with a W or Z boson which are produced diffractively in antiproton-proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV, using data from 0.6 inverse femtobarns of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF-II detector equipped with a Roman-pot spectrometer that detects the antiproton (pbar) from pbar+p --> pbar+[X+W/Z]. We find that (1.00+/- 0.11)% of Ws and (0.88+/-0.22)% of Zs are produced diffractively in a region of antiproton or proton fractional momentum loss (ξ) of 0.03<ξ<0.10 and 4-momentum transferred squared t of -1<t<0 (GeV/c)^2, where we account for the events in which the proton scatters diffractively while the antiproton dissociates, pbar+p --> [X+W/Z]+p, by doubling the measured proton dissociation fraction. We also report on searches for W and Z production in double Pomeron exchange, p+pbar --> p+[X+W/Z]+pbar, and on exclusive Z production, pbar+p --> pbar+Z+p. No signal is seen above background for these processes, and comparisons are made with expectations.

10 pages, 6 figures

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• Search for exclusive Z boson production and observation of high mass ppbar->gammagamma->p+ll+pbar events in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

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