Search for WW and WZ production in lepton plus jets final state at CDF
- Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki (Finland)
- Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637 (United States)
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 {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron, using data corresponding to 1.2 fb{sup -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 {sigma}{sub WW}xBR(W{yields}l{nu}{sub l},W{yields}jets)+{sigma}{sub WZ}xBR(W{yields}l{nu}{sub l},Z{yields}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.
- OSTI ID:
- 21296419
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 79, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.112011; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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