Search for anomalous kinematics in tt dilepton events at CDF II

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Jul 8;95(2):022001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.022001. Epub 2005 Jul 6.

Abstract

We report on a search for anomalous kinematics of tt dilepton events in pp collisions at square root of s=1.96 TeV using 193 pb(-1) of data collected with the CDF II detector. We developed a new a priori technique designed to isolate the subset in a data sample revealing the largest deviation from standard model (SM) expectations and to quantify the significance of this departure. In the four-variable space considered, no particular subset shows a significant discrepancy, and we find that the probability of obtaining a data sample less consistent with the SM than what is observed is 1.0%-4.5%.