Measurement of the W+W- production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at √s=1.96 TeV using dilepton events -: art. no. 211801

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作者
Acosta, D [1 ]
Adelman, J
Affolder, T
Akimoto, T
Albrow, MG
Ambrose, D
Amerio, S
Amidei, D
Anastassov, A
Anikeev, K
Annovi, A
Antos, J
Aoki, M
Apollinari, G
Arisawa, T
Arguin, JF
Artikov, A
Ashmanskas, W
Attal, A
Azfar, F
Azzi-Bacchetta, P
Bacchetta, N
Bachacou, H
Badgett, W
Barbaro-Galtieri, A
Barker, GJ
Barnes, VE
Barnett, BA
Baroiant, S
Barone, M
Bauer, G
Bedeschi, F
Behari, S
Belforte, S
Bellettini, G
Bellinger, J
Ben-Haim, E
Benjamin, D
Beretvas, A
Bhatti, A
Binkley, M
Bisello, D
Bishai, M
Blair, RE
Blocker, C
Bloom, K
Blumenfeld, B
Bocci, A
Bodek, A
Bolla, G
机构
[1] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[2] Acad Sinica, Inst Phys, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
[3] Argonne Natl Lab, Argonne, IL 60439 USA
[4] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Fis Altes Energies, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[5] Univ Bologna, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
[6] Brandeis Univ, Waltham, MA 02254 USA
[7] Univ Calif Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
[8] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[9] Univ Calif San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[10] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[11] Univ Cantabria, CSIC, Inst Fis Cantabria, E-39005 Santander, Spain
[12] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[13] Univ Chicago, Enrico Fermi Inst, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[14] Joint Inst Nucl Res, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
[15] Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[16] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[17] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Frascati, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
[18] Univ Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
[19] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[20] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[21] Univ Helsinki, Helsinki Grp, Helsinki Inst Phys, FIN-00044 Helsinki, Finland
[22] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys Sci, Div High Energy Phys, FIN-00044 Helsinki, Finland
[23] Hiroshima Univ, Higashihiroshima 724, Japan
[24] Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[25] Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[26] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
[27] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
[28] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Ctr High Energy Phys, Taegu 702701, South Korea
[29] Seoul Natl Univ, Seoul 151742, South Korea
[30] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon 440746, South Korea
[31] Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[32] Univ Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, Merseyside, England
[33] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[34] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[35] McGill Univ, Inst Particle Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[36] Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A7, Canada
[37] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[38] Michigan State Univ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[39] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[40] Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[41] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[42] Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[43] Okayama Univ, Okayama 7008530, Japan
[44] Osaka City Univ, Osaka 588, Japan
[45] Univ Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, England
[46] Univ Padua, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova Trento, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[47] Univ Penn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[48] Univ Pisa, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[49] Scuola Normale Super Pisa, I-56100 Pisa, Italy
[50] Univ Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.211801
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We present a measurement of the W+W- production cross section using 184 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar 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(+)nu l(-)(nu) over bar, where the charged leptons can be either electrons or muons, we find 17 candidate events compared to an expected background of 5.0(-0.8)(+2.2) events. The resulting W+W- production cross-section measurement of sigma(p (p) over bar -> W+W-)=14.6(-5.1)(+5.8)(stat)(-3.0)(+1.8)(syst)+/- 0.9(lum) pb agrees well with the standard model expectation.
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