At high mass, the observed width of the dimuon invariant mass distribution is dominated by the track curvature resolution, resulting in an
approximately constant resolution in δ1/mμμ. Our search strategy is to construct templates of the
inverse invariant mass distribution for a range of Z' boson pole masses, add the background distributions to the templates, and compare
the templates to the 1/mμμ distribution from data in the search region 1/mμμ
< 10 1/TeV. The simulated templates (including backgrounds) are normalized to the data in the 70 GeV < mμμ < 100 GeV
normalization region. We evaluate the binned Poisson likelihood as a function of signal template integral. The likelihood yields
the best-fit number of signal events observed, as well as the confidence interval.
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