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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Abulencia, A
• Adelman, J
• Affolder, T
• Akimoto, T
• Albrow, M G
• Ambrose, D
• Amerio, S
• Amidei, D
• Anastassov, A
• Anikeev, K
• Annovi, A
• Antos, J
• Aoki, M
• Apollinari, G
• Arguin, J-F
• Arisawa, T
• Artikov, A
• Ashmanskas, W
• Attal, A
• Azfar, F
• Azzi-Bacchetta, P
• Azzurri, P
• Bacchetta, N
• Badgett, W
• Barbaro-Galtieri, A
• Barnes, V E
• Barnett, B A
• Baroiant, S
• Bartsch, V
• Bauer, G
• Bedeschi, F
• Behari, S
• Belforte, S
• Bellettini, G
• Bellinger, J
• Belloni, A
• Benjamin, D
• Beretvas, A
• Beringer, J
• Berry, T
• Bhatti, A
• Binkley, M
• Bisello, D
• Blair, R E
• Blocker, C
• Blumenfeld, B
• Bocci, A
• Bodek, A
• Boisvert, V
• Bolla, G
• Bolshov, A
• Bortoletto, D
• Boudreau, J
• Boveia, A
• Brau, B
• Brigliadori, L
• Bromberg, C
• Brubaker, E
• Budagov, J
• Budd, H S
• Budd, S
• Budroni, S
• Burkett, K
• Busetto, G
• Bussey, P
• Byrum, K L
• Cabrera, S
• Campanelli, M
• Campbell, M
• Canelli, F
• Canepa, A
• Carillo, S
• Carlsmith, D
• Carosi, R
• Carron, S
• Casarsa, M
• Castro, A
• Catastini, P
• Cauz, D
• Cavalli-Sforza, M
• Cerri, A
• Cerrito, L
• Chang, S H
• Chen, Y C
• Chertok, M
• Chiarelli, G
• Chlachidze, G
• Chlebana, F
• Cho, I
• Cho, K
• Chokheli, D
• Chou, J P
• Choudalakis, G
• Chuang, S H
• Chung, K
• Chung, W H
• Chung, Y S
• Ciljak, M
• Ciobanu, C I
• Ciocci, M A

Titel

Observation of WZ production

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2007-04, Vol.98 (16), p.161801-161801

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Physical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We report the first observation of the associated production of a W boson and a Z boson. This result is based on 1.1 fb;-1 of integrated luminosity from pp collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV collected with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We observe 16 WZ candidates passing our event selection with an expected background of 2.7+/-0.4 events. A fit to the missing transverse energy distribution indicates an excess of events compared to the background expectation corresponding to a significance equivalent to 6 standard deviations. The measured cross section is sigma(pp-->WZ)=5.0(-1.6)(+1.8) pb, consistent with the standard model expectation.