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Measurement of the ratios of the Z/G* + >= n jet production cross sections to the total inclusive Z/G* cross section in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>3/01/2008
<mark>Journal</mark>Physics Letters B
Issue number4
Volume658
Number of pages8
Pages (from-to)112-119
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present a study of events with Z bosons and jets produced at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider in ppbar collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data sample consists of nearly 14,000 Z/G* -> e+e- candidates corresponding to the integrated luminosity of 0.4 fb-1 collected using the D0 detector. Ratios of the Z/G* + >= n jet cross sections to the total inclusive Z/G* cross section have been measured for n = 1 to 4 jet events. Our measurements are found to be in good agreement with a next-to-leading order QCD calculation and with a tree-level QCD prediction with parton shower simulation and hadronization.

Bibliographic note

7 pages, 2 figures, slightly modified, submitted to Phys. Lett. B