Measurement of the W+W- Production Cross Section and Search for Anomalous WWγ and WWZ Couplings in pp[over-bar] Collisions at [sqrt]s=1.96  TeV

This Letter describes the current most precise measurement of the W boson pair production cross section and most sensitive test of anomalous WWγ and WWZ couplings in pp[over-bar] collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The WW candidates are reconstructed from decays containing two charged...

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Main Authors: Paus, Christoph M. E. (Contributor), Makhoul, K. (Contributor), Goncharov, Maxim (Contributor), Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo (Contributor), Bauer, Gerry P. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2010-08-05T18:56:11Z.
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520 |a This Letter describes the current most precise measurement of the W boson pair production cross section and most sensitive test of anomalous WWγ and WWZ couplings in pp[over-bar] collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The WW candidates are reconstructed from decays containing two charged leptons and two neutrinos. Using data collected by the CDF II detector from 3.6  fb[superscript -1] of integrated luminosity, a total of 654 candidate events are observed with an expected background of 320±47 events. The measured cross section is sigma(pp[over-bar] -->W+W-+X)=12.1±0.9(stat)[subscript -1.4]+1.6(syst)  pb, which is in good agreement with the standard model prediction. The same data sample is used to place constraints on anomalous WWγ and WWZ couplings. 
520 |a United States Department of Energy 
520 |a National Science Foundation 
520 |a Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy 
520 |a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan 
520 |a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 
520 |a National Science Council of the Republic of China 
520 |a Swiss National Science Foundation 
520 |a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 
520 |a Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany 
520 |a National Research Foundation of Korea 
520 |a Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom 
520 |a Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et Physique des Particules/CNRS 
520 |a Russian Foundation for Basic Research 
520 |a Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain 
520 |a Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain 
520 |a Slovak R&D Agency 
520 |a Academy of Finland 
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773 |t Physical Review Letters