@article{65f9ba5d7bf84642bfeb2db75d2677ca,
title = "Measurement of the WW and WZ production cross section using final states with a charged lepton and heavy-flavor jets in the full CDF Run II data set",
abstract = "We present a measurement of the total WW and WZ production cross sections in pp collision at s=1.96 TeV, in a final state consistent with leptonic W boson decay and jets originating from heavy-flavor quarks from either a W or a Z boson decay. This analysis uses the full data set collected with the CDF II detector during Run II of the Tevatron collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb-1. An analysis of the dijet mass spectrum provides 3.7σ evidence of the summed production processes of either WW or WZ bosons with a measured total cross section of σWW+WZ=13.7±3.9 pb. Independent measurements of the WW and WZ production cross sections are allowed by the different heavy-flavor decay patterns of the W and Z bosons and by the analysis of secondary-decay vertices reconstructed within heavy-flavor jets. The productions of WW and of WZ dibosons are independently seen with significances of 2.9σ and 2.1σ, respectively, with total cross sections of σWW=9.4±4.2 pb and σWZ=3.7-2.2+2.5 pb. The measurements are consistent with standard-model predictions.",
author = "{CDF Collaboration} and T. Aaltonen and S. Amerio and D. Amidei and A. Anastassov and A. Annovi and J. Antos and G. Apollinari and Appel, {J. A.} and T. Arisawa and A. Artikov and J. Asaadi and W. Ashmanskas and B. Auerbach and A. Aurisano and F. Azfar and W. Badgett and T. Bae and A. Barbaro-Galtieri and Barnes, {V. E.} and Barnett, {B. A.} and P. Barria and P. Bartos and M. Bauce and F. Bedeschi and S. Behari and G. Bellettini and J. Bellinger and D. Benjamin and A. Beretvas and A. Bhatti and Bland, {K. R.} and B. Blumenfeld and A. Bocci and A. Bodek and D. Bortoletto and J. Boudreau and A. Boveia and L. Brigliadori and C. Bromberg and E. Brucken and J. Budagov and Budd, {H. S.} and K. Burkett and G. Busetto and P. Bussey and P. Butti and A. Buzatu and A. Calamba and N. Kimura and K. Yorita",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the Fermilab staff and the technical staffs of the participating institutions for their vital contributions. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the National Science Council of the Republic of China; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Bundesministerium ar Bildung und Forschung, Germany; the Korean World Class University Program, the National Research Foundation of Korea; the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Society, UK; the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacin, and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Slovak R and D Agency the Academy of Finland and the Australian Research Council (ARC). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 American Physical Society.",
year = "2016",
month = aug,
day = "23",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.94.032008",
language = "English",
volume = "94",
journal = "Physical Review D",
issn = "2470-0010",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "3",
}