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Observation of WZ production |
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| Authors: | 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 |
| Institution: | University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. |
| Abstract: | 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 sqrts]=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. |
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