Search for WW and WZ production in lepton plus jets final state at CDF
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Xie, Si; Knuteson, Bruce O.; Henderson, C.; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Choudalakis, Georgios; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Makhoul, Khaldoun; Goncharov, Maxim; Bauer, Gerry P; ... Show more Show less
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We present a search for WW and WZ production in final states that contain a charged lepton (electron or muon) and at least two jets, produced in √s=1.96 TeV pp̅ collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron, using data corresponding to 1.2 fb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity collected with the CDF II detector. Diboson production in this decay channel has yet to be observed at hadron colliders due to the large single W plus jets background. An artificial neural network has been developed to increase signal sensitivity, as compared with an event selection based on conventional cuts. We set a 95% confidence level upper limit of σ_(WW)×BR(W→ℓνℓ,W→jets)+σ[subscript WZ]×BR(W→ℓν_ℓ,Z→jets)<2.88 pb, which is consistent with the standard model next-to-leading-order cross section calculation for this decay channel of 2.09±0.12 pb.
Date issued
2009-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
CDF Collaboration et al. “Search for WW and WZ production in lepton plus jets final state at CDF.” Physical Review D 79.11 (2009): 112011. © 2009 The American Physical Society
Version: Final published version
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1550-2368
1550-7998