Electroweak Physics

Electroweak Physics
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We present a search for ZZ and ZW vector boson pair production in p{bar p} collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV using the leptonic decay channels ZZ → llvv, ZZ → lll'l' and ZW → lll'v. In a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 194 pb−1 collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, 3 candidate events are found with an expected background of 1.0 ± 0.2 events. We set a 95% confidence level upper limit of 15.2 pb on the cross section for ZZ plus ZW production, compared to the standard model prediction of 5.0 ± 0.4 pb.

First Measurement of ZZ Production in Panti-p Collisions at S**ư

First Measurement of ZZ Production in Panti-p Collisions at S**ư
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We report the first measurement of the cross section for Z boson pair production at a hadron collider. This result is based on a data sample corresponding to 1.9 fb−1 of integrated luminosity from p{bar p} collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. In the lll′l′ channel, we observe three ZZ candidates with an expected background of 0.096{sub -0.063}{sup +0.092} events. In the ll?? channel, we use a leading-order calculation of the relative ZZ and WW event probabilities to discriminate between signal and background. In the combination of lll′l′ and ll?? channels, we observe an excess of events with a probability of 5.1 x 10−6 to be due to the expected background. This corresponds to a significance of 4.4 standard deviations. The measured cross section is?(p{bar p} →ZZ) = 1.4{sub -0.6}{sup +0.7} (stat.+syst.) pb, consistent with the standard model expectation.

Search for the Production of ZW and ZZ Boson Pairs Decaying Into Charged Leptons and Jets in Proton-antiproton Collisions at Sqrt[s]

Search for the Production of ZW and ZZ Boson Pairs Decaying Into Charged Leptons and Jets in Proton-antiproton Collisions at Sqrt[s]
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We present a measurement of the production cross section for ZW and ZZ boson pairs in final states with a pair of charged leptons, from the decay of a Z boson, and at least two jets, from the decay of a W or Z boson, using the full sample of proton-antiproton collisions recorded with the CDF II detector at the Tevatron, corresponding to 8.9 fb(̂-1) of integrated luminosity. We increase the sensitivity to vector boson decays into pairs of quarks using a neural network discriminant that exploits the differences between the spatial spread of energy depositions and charged-particle momenta contained within the jet of particles originating from quarks and gluons. Additionally, we employ new jet energy corrections to Monte Carlo simulations that account for differences in the observed energy scales for quark and gluon jets. The number of signal events is extracted through a simultaneous fit to the dijet mass spectrum in three classes of events: events likely to contain jets with a heavy-quark decay, events likely to contain jets originating from light quarks, and events that fail these identification criteria. We determine the production cross section to be 2.5 +2.0 -1.0 pb (

Search for Exclusive Z Boson Production and Observation of High Mass P Anti-p ---] Gamma Gamma Anti-p ---] Pl+ L- Anti-p Events in P Anti-p Collisions at S**1/2

Search for Exclusive Z Boson Production and Observation of High Mass P Anti-p ---] Gamma Gamma Anti-p ---] Pl+ L- Anti-p Events in P Anti-p Collisions at S**1/2
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We present a search for exclusive Z boson production in proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, using the CDF II detector at Fermilab. We observe no exclusive Z → l+l− candidates and place the first upper limit on the exclusive Z cross section in hadron collisions, [sigma]{sub excl}(Z) 0.96 pb at 95% confidence level. In addition, we observe eight candidate exclusive dilepton events from the quantum electrodynamic process p{bar p} → p[gamma][gamma]{bar p} → pl+l− {bar p}, and measure the cross section for M{sub l{ell}} 40 GeV=c2 and.

Search for Exclusive Z Boson Production and Observation of High Mass P Anti-p ---] Gamma Gamma Anti-p ---] Pl+ L- Anti-p Events in P Anti-p Collisions at S**ư

Search for Exclusive Z Boson Production and Observation of High Mass P Anti-p ---] Gamma Gamma Anti-p ---] Pl+ L- Anti-p Events in P Anti-p Collisions at S**ư
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We present a search for exclusive Z boson production in proton-antiproton collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV, using the CDF II detector at Fermilab. We observe no exclusive Z → ll− candidates and place the first upper limit on the exclusive Z cross section in hadron collisions,?{sub excl}(Z) 0.96 pb at 95% confidence level. In addition, we observe eight candidate exclusive dilepton events from the quantum electrodynamic process p{bar p} → p??{bar p} → pl+l− {bar p}, and measure the cross section for M{sub l{ell}} 40 GeV=c2 and.