Measurement of the W $\rightarrow \tau\nu$ production cross section in $p\overline{p}$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 1.8 TeV

We report on a measurement of sigma(p-pbar to W+X) times B(W to tau+nu) in p-pbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.8 TeV at the Fermilab Tevatron. The measurement is based on an integrated luminosity of 18 pb^-1 of data collected with the D0 detector during 1994-1995. We find that sigma(p-pbar to W+X) times B(W to tau+nu) = 2.22 +- 0.09 (stat) +- 0.10 (syst) +- 0.10 (lum) nb. Lepton universality predicts that the ratio of the tau and electron electroweak charged current couplings to the W boson, g_tau^W / g_e^W, be unity. We find g_tau^W / g_e^W = 0.980 +- 0.031, in agreement with lepton universality.

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Author Abbott, B., Abolins, M., Abramov, V., Acharya, B.S., Adams, D.L., Adams, M., Ahn, S., Akimov, V., Alves, G.A., Amos, N., Anderson, E.W., Baarmand, M.M., Babintsev, V.V., Babukhadia, L., Baden, A., Baldin, B., Banerjee, S., Bantly, J., Barberis, E., Baringer, P., Bartlett, J.F., Bassler, U., Belyaev, A., Beri, S.B., Bernardi, G., Bertram, I., Bezzubov, V.A., Bhat, P.C., Bhatnagar, V., Bhattacharjee, M., Blazey, G., Blessing, S., Boehnlein, A., Bozhko, N.I., Borcherding, F., Brandt, A., Breedon, R., Briskin, G., Brock, R., Brooijmans, G., Bross, A., Buchholz, D., Buescher, V., Burtovoi, V.S., Butler, J.M., Carvalho, W., Casey, D., Casilum, Z., Castilla-Valdez, H., Chakraborty, D., Chan, K.M., Chekulaev, S.V., Chen, W., M., Cho, D.K., Choi, S., K., Chopra, S., Choudhary, B.C., Christenson, J.H., Chung, M., Claes, D., Clark, A.R., Cobau, W.G., Cochran, J., Coney, L., Connolly, B., Cooper, W.E., Coppage, D., Cullen-Vidal, D., Cummings, M.A.C., Cutts, D., Dahl, O.I., Davis, K., De, K., del Signore, K., Demarteau, M., Denisov, D., Denisov, S.P., Diehl, H.T., Diesburg, M., Diloreto, G., Draper, P., Ducros, Y., Dudko, L.V., Dugad, S.R., Dyshkant, A., Edmunds, D., Ellison, J., Elvira, V.D., Engelmann, R., Eno, S., Eppley, G., Ermolov, P., Eroshin, O.V., Estrada, J., Evans, H., Evdokimov, V.N., Fahland, T., Feher, S., Fein, D., Ferbel, T., Fisk, H.E., Fisyak, Yu., Flattum, E., Fleuret, F., Fortner, M., Frame, K.C., Fuess, S., Gallas, E., Galyaev, A.N., Gartung, P., Gavrilov, V., Genik, R.J., Genser, K., Gerber, C.E., Gershtein, Y., Gibbard, B., Gilmartin, R., Ginther, G., Gobbi, B., Gomez, B., Gomez, G., Goncharov, P.I., Gonzalez Solis, J.L., Gordon, H., Goss, L.T., Gounder, K., Goussiou, A., Graf, N., Grannis, P.D., Green, D.R., Green, J.A., Greenlee, H., Grinstein, S., Grudberg, P., Grunendahl, S., Guglielmo, G., Gupta, Anupam, Gurzhev, S.N., Gutierrez, G., Gutierrez, P., Hadley, N.J., Haggerty, H., Hagopian, S., Hagopian, V., Hahn, K.S., Hall, R.E., Hanlet, P., Hansen, Scott, Hauptman, J.M., Hays, C., Hebert, Christian, Hedin, D., Heinson, A.P., Heintz, U., Heuring, T., Hirosky, R., Hobbs, J.D., Hoeneisen, B., Hoftun, J.S., Hsieh, F., Ito, A.S., Jerger, S.A., Jesik, R., Joffe-Minor, T., Johns, K., Johnson, M., Jonckheere, A., Jones, M., J., Jostlein, H., Jun, S.Y., Kahn, S., Kajfasz, E., Karmanov, D., Karmgard, D., Kehoe, R., Kim, S.K., Klima, B., Klopfenstein, C., Knuteson, B., Ko, W., Kohli, J.M., Koltick, D., Kostritsky, A.V., Kotcher, J., Kotwal, A.V., Kozelov, A.V., Kozlovsky, E.A., Krane, J., Krishnaswamy, M.R., Krzywdzinski, S., Kubantsev, M., Kuleshov, S., Kulik, Y., Kunori, S., Landsberg, G., Leflat, A., Lehner, F., Li, H., Li, J., Li, Q.Z., Lima, J.G.R., Lincoln, D., Linn, S.L., Linnemann, J., Lipton, R., Lu, J.G., Lucotte, A., Lueking, L., Lundstedt, C., Maciel, A.K.A., Madaras, R.J., Manankov, V., Mani, S., Mao, H.S., Markeloff, R., Marshall, T., Martin, M.I., Martin, R.D., Mauritz, K.M., May, B., Mayorov, A.A., Mccarthy, R., Mcdonald, J., Mckibben, T., Mcmahon, T., Melanson, H.L., Merkin, M., Merritt, K.W., Miao, C., Miettinen, H., Mincer, A., Mishra, C.S., Mokhov, N., Mondal, N.K., Montgomery, H.E., Mostafa, M., da Motta, H., Nagy, E., Nang, F., Narain, M., Narasimham, V.S., Neal, H.A., Negret, J.P., Negroni, S., Norman, D., Oesch, L., Oguri, V., Olivier, B., Oshima, N., Owen, D., Padley, P., Para, A., Parashar, N., Partridge, R., Parua, N., Paterno, M., Patwa, A., Pawlik, B., Perkins, J., Peters, M., Piegaia, R., Piekarz, H., Pishchalnikov, Yu., Pope, B.G., Popkov, E., Prosper, H.B., Protopopescu, S., Qian, J., Quintas, P.Z., Raja, R., Rajagopalan, S., Reay, N.W., Reucroft, S., Rijssenbeek, M., Rockwell, T., Roco, M., Rubinov, P., Ruchti, R., Rutherfoord, J., Santoro, A., Sawyer, L., Schamberger, R.D., Schellman, H., Schwartzman, A., Sculli, J., Sen, N., Shabalina, E., Shankar, H.C., Shivpuri, R.K., Shpakov, D., Shupe, M., Sidwell, R.A., Singh, H., Singh, J.B., Sirotenko, V., Slattery, P., Smith, E., Smith, R.P., Snihur, R., Snow, G.R., Snow, J., Snyder, S., Solomon, J., Song, X.F., Sorin, V., Sosebee, M., Sotnikova, N., Souza, M., Stanton, N.R., Steinbruck, G., Stephens, R.W., Stevenson, M.L., Stichelbaut, F., Stoker, D., Stolin, V., Stoyanova, D.A., Strauss, M., Streets, K., Strovink, M., Stutte, L., Sznajder, A., Tarazi, J., Tartaglia, M., Thomas, T.L.T., Thompson, J., Toback, D., Trippe, T.G., Turcot, A.S., Tuts, P.M., van Gemmeren, P., Vanev, V., Varelas, N., Volkov, A.A., Vorobev, A.P., Wahl, H.D., Warchol, J., Watts, G., Wayne, M., Weerts, H., White, A., White, J.T., Wightman, J.A., Willis, S., Wimpenny, S.J., Wirjawan, J.V.D., Womersley, J., Wood, D.R., Yamada, R., Yamin, P., Yasuda, T., Yip, K., Youssef, S., Yu, J., Yu, Y., Zanabria, M., Zheng, H., Zhou, Z., Zhu, Z.H., Zielinski, M., Zieminska, D., Zieminski, A., Zutshi, V., Zverev, E.G., Zylberstejn, A.
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Last Updated May 9, 2026, 20:00 (UTC)
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Identifier in2p3-00004990
Language en
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contributor Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE) ; Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Abbott, B.
date 2000-05-09T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
metadata_modified 2025-09-27T00:00:00
relation info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/hep-ex/9912065
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