Measurement of the WW plus WZ Production Cross Section Using the lepton plus jets Final State at CDF II
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Author(s)
Paus, Christoph M. E.
Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo
Goncharov, Maxim
Bauer, Gerry P
Makhoul, Khaldoun
Date Issued
March 2010
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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CDF Collaboration et al. “Measurement of the WW+WZ Production Cross Section Using the lepton+jets Final State at CDF II.” Physical Review Letters 104.10 (2010): 101801. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
We report two complementary measurements of the WW+WZ cross section in the final state consisting of an electron or muon, missing transverse energy, and jets, performed using pp[over-bar] collision data at [sqrt]s=1.96 TeV collected by the CDF II detector. The first method uses the dijet invariant mass distribution while the second more sensitive method uses matrix-element calculations. The result from the second method has a signal significance of 5.4sigmaand is the first observation of WW+WZ production using this signature. Combining the results gives sigmaWW+WZ=16.0±3.3 pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.101801
