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Standard model explanation of a CDF dijet excess in Wjj

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-06-08 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We demonstrate the recent observation of a peak in the dijet invariant mass of the Wjj signal observed by the CDF Collaboration can be explained as the same upward fluctuation observed by CDF in single-top-quark production. In general, both t-channel and s-channel single-top-quark production produce kinematically induced peaks in the dijet spectrum. Since CDF used a Monte Carlo simulation to subtract the single-top backgrounds instead of data, a peak in the dijet spectrum is expected. The D0 Collaboration has a small upward fluctuation in their published t-channel data; and hence we predict they would see at most a small peak in the dijet invariant mass spectrum of Wjj if they follow the same procedure as CDF.

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@article{arxiv.1104.3790,
  title  = {Standard model explanation of a CDF dijet excess in Wjj},
  author = {Zack Sullivan and Arjun Menon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.3790},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

3 pg., 2 figs, revtex, minor clarifications, to appear in Phys. Rev. D