Measurement of the W(+)W(-) production cross section in pp collisions at square root[s]=1.96 TeV using dilepton events.
Physical review letters 94:21 (2005) 211801
Authors:
D Acosta, J Adelman, T Affolder, T Akimoto, MG Albrow, D Ambrose, S Amerio, D Amidei, A Anastassov, K Anikeev, A Annovi, J Antos, M Aoki, G Apollinari, T Arisawa, J-F Arguin, A Artikov, W Ashmanskas, A Attal, F Azfar, P Azzi-Bacchetta, N Bacchetta, H Bachacou, W Badgett, A Barbaro-Galtieri, GJ Barker, VE Barnes, BA Barnett, S Baroiant, M Barone, G Bauer, F Bedeschi, S Behari, S Belforte, G Bellettini, J Bellinger, E Ben-Haim, D Benjamin, A Beretvas, A Bhatti, M Binkley, D Bisello, M Bishai, RE Blair, C Blocker, K Bloom, B Blumenfeld, A Bocci, A Bodek, G Bolla, A Bolshov, PSL Booth, D Bortoletto, J Boudreau, S Bourov, B Brau, C Bromberg, E Brubaker, J Budagov, HS Budd, K Burkett, G Busetto, P Bussey, KL Byrum, S Cabrera, M Campanelli, M Campbell, F Canelli, A Canepa, M Casarsa, D Carlsmith, S Carron, R Carosi, M Cavalli-Sforza, A Castro, P Catastini, D Cauz, A Cerri, L Cerrito, J Chapman, C Chen, YC Chen, M Chertok, G Chiarelli, G Chlachidze, F Chlebana, I Cho, K Cho, D Chokheli, JP Chou, ML Chu, S Chuang, JY Chung, W-H Chung, YS Chung, CI Ciobanu, MA Ciocci, AG Clark, D Clark, M Coca, A Connolly, M Convery, J Conway, B Cooper, M Cordelli, G Cortiana, J Cranshaw, J Cuevas, R Culbertson, C Currat, D Cyr, D Dagenhart, S Da Ronco, S D'Auria, P de Barbaro, S De Cecco, G De Lentdecker, S Dell'agnello, M Dell'orso, S Demers, L Demortier, J Deng, M Deninno, D De Pedis, PF Derwent, C Dionisi, JR Dittmann, C Dörr, P Doksus, A Dominguez, S Donati, M Donega, J Donini, M D'Onofrio, T Dorigo, V Drollinger, K Ebina, N Eddy, J Efron, J Ehlers, R Ely, R Erbacher, M Erdmann, D Errede, S Errede, R Eusebi, H-C Fang, S Farrington, I Fedorko, WT Fedorko, RG Feild, M Feindt, JP Fernandez, C Ferretti, RD Field, G Flanagan, B Flaugher, LR Flores-Castillo, A Foland, S Forrester, GW Foster, M Franklin, JC Freeman, Y Fujii, I Furic, A Gajjar, A Gallas, J Galyardt, M Gallinaro, M Garcia-Sciveres, AF Garfinkel, C Gay, H Gerberich, DW Gerdes, E Gerchtein, S Giagu, P Giannetti, A Gibson, K Gibson, C Ginsburg, K Giolo, M Giordani, M Giunta, G Giurgiu, V Glagolev, D Glenzinski, M Gold, N Goldschmidt, D Goldstein, J Goldstein, G Gomez, G Gomez-Ceballos, M Goncharov, O González, I Gorelov, AT Goshaw, Y Gotra, K Goulianos, A Gresele, M Griffiths, C Grosso-Pilcher, U Grundler, M Guenther, J Guimaraes da Costa, C Haber, K Hahn, SR Hahn, E Halkiadakis, A Hamilton, B-Y Han, R Handler, F Happacher, K Hara, M Hare, RF Harr, RM Harris, F Hartmann, K Hatakeyama, J Hauser, C Hays, H Hayward, E Heider, B Heinemann, J Heinrich, M Hennecke, M Herndon, C Hill, D Hirschbuehl, A Hocker, KD Hoffman, A Holloway, S Hou, MA Houlden, BT Huffman, Y Huang, RE Hughes, J Huston, K Ikado, J Incandela, G Introzzi, M Iori, Y Ishizawa, C Issever, A Ivanov, Y Iwata, B Iyutin, E James, D Jang, J Jarrell, D Jeans, H Jensen, EJ Jeon, M Jones, KK Joo, SY Jun, T Junk, T Kamon, J Kang, M Karagoz Unel, PE Karchin, S Kartal, Y Kato, Y Kemp, R Kephart, U Kerzel, V Khotilovich, B Kilminster, DH Kim, HS Kim, JE Kim, MJ Kim, MS Kim, SB Kim, SH Kim, TH Kim, YK Kim, M Kirby, L Kirsch, S Klimenko, B Knuteson, BR Ko, H Kobayashi, P Koehn, DJ Kong, K Kondo, J Konigsberg, K Kordas, A Korn, A Korytov, K Kotelnikov, AV Kotwal, A Kovalev, J Kraus, I Kravchenko, A Kreymer, J Kroll, M Kruse, V Krutelyov, SE Kuhlmann, S Kwang, AT Laasanen, S Lai, S Lami, S Lammel, J Lancaster, M Lancaster, R Lander, K Lannon, A Lath, G Latino, R Lauhakangas, I Lazzizzera, Y Le, C Lecci, T Lecompte, J Lee, J Lee, SW Lee, R Lefèvre, N Leonardo, S Leone, S Levy, JD Lewis, K Li, C Lin, CS Lin, M Lindgren, TM Liss, A Lister, DO Litvintsev, T Liu, Y Liu, NS Lockyer, A Loginov, M Loreti, P Loverre, R-S Lu, D Lucchesi, P Lujan, P Lukens, G Lungu, L Lyons, J Lys, R Lysak, D Macqueen, R Madrak, K Maeshima, P Maksimovic, L Malferrari, G Manca, R Marginean, C Marino, A Martin, M Martin, V Martin, M Martínez, T Maruyama, H Matsunaga, M Mattson, P Mazzanti, KS McFarland, D McGivern, PM McIntyre, P McNamara, R McNulty, A Mehta, S 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Renton, M Rescigno, F Rimondi, K Rinnert, L Ristori, WJ Robertson, A Robson, T Rodrigo, S Rolli, L Rosenson, R Roser, R Rossin, C Rott, J Russ, V Rusu, A Ruiz, D Ryan, H Saarikko, S Sabik, A Safonov, R St Denis, WK Sakumoto, G Salamanna, D Saltzberg, C Sanchez, A Sansoni, L Santi, S Sarkar, K Sato, P Savard, A Savoy-Navarro, P Schlabach, EE Schmidt, MP Schmidt, M Schmitt, L Scodellaro, AL Scott, A Scribano, F Scuri, A Sedov, S Seidel, Y Seiya, F Semeria, L Sexton-Kennedy, I Sfiligoi, MD Shapiro, T Shears, PF Shepard, D Sherman, M Shimojima, M Shochet, Y Shon, I Shreyber, A Sidoti, J Siegrist, M Siket, A Sill, P Sinervo, A Sisakyan, A Skiba, AJ Slaughter, K Sliwa, D Smirnov, JR Smith, FD Snider, R Snihur, A Soha, SV Somalwar, J Spalding, M Spezziga, L Spiegel, F Spinella, M Spiropulu, P Squillacioti, H Stadie, B Stelzer, O Stelzer-Chilton, J Strologas, D Stuart, A Sukhanov, K Sumorok, H Sun, T Suzuki, A Taffard, R Tafirout, SF Takach, H Takano, R Takashima, Y Takeuchi, K Takikawa, M Tanaka, R Tanaka, N Tanimoto, S Tapprogge, M Tecchio, PK Teng, K Terashi, RJ Tesarek, S Tether, J Thom, AS Thompson, E Thomson, P Tipton, V Tiwari, S Tkaczyk, D Toback, K Tollefson, T Tomura, D Tonelli, M Tönnesmann, S Torre, D Torretta, S Tourneur, W Trischuk, J Tseng, R Tsuchiya, S Tsuno, D Tsybychev, N Turini, M Turner, F Ukegawa, T Unverhau, S Uozumi, D Usynin, L Vacavant, A Vaiciulis, A Varganov, E Vataga, S Vejcik, G Velev, V Veszpremi, G Veramendi, T Vickey, R Vidal, I Vila, R Vilar, I Vollrath, I Volobouev, M von der Mey, P Wagner, RG Wagner, RL Wagner, W Wagner, R Wallny, T Walter, T Yamashita, K Yamamoto, Z Wan, MJ Wang, SM Wang, A Warburton, B Ward, S Waschke, D Waters, T Watts, M Weber, WC Wester, B Whitehouse, AB Wicklund, E Wicklund, HH Williams, P Wilson, BL Winer, P Wittich, S Wolbers, C Wolfe, M Wolter, M Worcester, S Worm, T Wright, X Wu, F Würthwein, A Wyatt, A Yagil, C Yang, UK Yang, W Yao, GP Yeh, K Yi, J Yoh, P Yoon, K Yorita, T Yoshida, I Yu, S Yu, Z Yu, JC Yun, L Zanello, A Zanetti, I Zaw, F Zetti, J Zhou, A Zsenei, S Zucchelli, CDF Collaboration
Abstract:
We present a measurement of the W(+)W(-) production cross section using 184 pb(-1) of p(p) collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab. Using the dilepton decay channel W(+)W(-)-->l(+)nul(-), where the charged leptons can be either electrons or muons, we find 17 candidate events compared to an expected background of 5.0(+2.2)(-0.8) events. The resulting W(+)W(-) production cross-section measurement of sigma(pp-->W(+)W(-))=14.6(+5.8)(-5.1)(stat)(+1.8)(-3.0)(syst) +/- 0.9(lum) pb agrees well with the standard model expectation.
