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## Measurements of WW and WZ production in W + jets final states in p-pbar collisions

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In: Physical review letters, Vol. 108, No. 18, 181803, 02.05.2012.

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@article{a5d1e3be2acc42ea800d3152ffa3e4bf,
title = "Measurements of WW and WZ production in W + jets final states in p-pbar collisions",
abstract = "We study WW and WZ production with $l\nu q{q}$ ($l=e,\mu$) final states using data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider corresponding to 4.3 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity from p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV. Assuming the ratio between the production cross sections $\sigma(WW)$ and $\sigma(WZ)$ as predicted by the standard model, we measure the total WV (V=W,Z) cross section to be $\sigma(WV)= 19.6^{+3.2}_{-3.0}$ pb, and reject the background-only hypothesis at a level of 7.9 standard deviations. We also use b-jet discrimination to separate the WZ component from the dominant WW component. Simultaneously fitting WW and WZ contributions, we measure $\sigma(WW) = 15.9^{+3.7}_{-3.2}$ pb and $\sigma(WZ) = 3.3^{+4.1}_{-3.3}$ pb, which is consistent with the standard model predictions.",
author = "D0 Collaboration and Iain Bertram and Guennadi Borissov and Harald Fox and Anthony Ross and Mark Williams and Peter Ratoff",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2012 American Physical Society 13 pages, 8 Figures, 3 Tables; To be submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett",
year = "2012",
month = may,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.181803",
language = "English",
volume = "108",
journal = "Physical review letters",
issn = "1079-7114",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
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T1 - Measurements of WW and WZ production in W + jets final states in p-pbar collisions

AU - Collaboration, D0

AU - Bertram, Iain

AU - Fox, Harald

AU - Ross, Anthony

AU - Williams, Mark

AU - Ratoff, Peter

N1 - © 2012 American Physical Society 13 pages, 8 Figures, 3 Tables; To be submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

PY - 2012/5/2

Y1 - 2012/5/2

N2 - We study WW and WZ production with $l\nu q{q}$ ($l=e,\mu$) final states using data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider corresponding to 4.3 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity from p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV. Assuming the ratio between the production cross sections $\sigma(WW)$ and $\sigma(WZ)$ as predicted by the standard model, we measure the total WV (V=W,Z) cross section to be $\sigma(WV)= 19.6^{+3.2}_{-3.0}$ pb, and reject the background-only hypothesis at a level of 7.9 standard deviations. We also use b-jet discrimination to separate the WZ component from the dominant WW component. Simultaneously fitting WW and WZ contributions, we measure $\sigma(WW) = 15.9^{+3.7}_{-3.2}$ pb and $\sigma(WZ) = 3.3^{+4.1}_{-3.3}$ pb, which is consistent with the standard model predictions.

AB - We study WW and WZ production with $l\nu q{q}$ ($l=e,\mu$) final states using data collected by the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider corresponding to 4.3 fb^-1 of integrated luminosity from p-pbar collisions at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV. Assuming the ratio between the production cross sections $\sigma(WW)$ and $\sigma(WZ)$ as predicted by the standard model, we measure the total WV (V=W,Z) cross section to be $\sigma(WV)= 19.6^{+3.2}_{-3.0}$ pb, and reject the background-only hypothesis at a level of 7.9 standard deviations. We also use b-jet discrimination to separate the WZ component from the dominant WW component. Simultaneously fitting WW and WZ contributions, we measure $\sigma(WW) = 15.9^{+3.7}_{-3.2}$ pb and $\sigma(WZ) = 3.3^{+4.1}_{-3.3}$ pb, which is consistent with the standard model predictions.

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DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.181803

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JO - Physical review letters

JF - Physical review letters

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