Search for Resonant Top-antitop Production in the Semi-leptonic Decay Mode Using the Full CDF Data Set

Abstract

This Letter reports a search for a narrow resonant state decaying into two $W$ bosons and a bottom-antibottom quark pair where one $W$ boson decays leptonically and the other decays into a quark-antiquark pair. The search is particularly sensitive to top-antitop resonant production. We use the full data sample of proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV collected by the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.45 fb${}^{-1}$. No evidence for resonant production is found and upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio for a narrow resonant state are extracted. Within a specific benchmark model, we exclude a $Z^{\prime }$ boson with mass below 915 GeV/$c^2$ decaying into a top-antitop pair at the 95% credibility level assuming a $Z^{\prime }$ boson decay width of ${\Gamma }_{Z^{\prime }}=0.012M_{Z^{\prime }}$. This is the most sensitive search for a narrow $\ensuremath{q\bar{q}}$-initiated $\ensuremath{t\bar{t}}$ resonance in the mass region below 750 GeV/$c^2$.

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