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TY - JOUR
T1 - Observation of ZZ production in ppbar collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV
AU - Collaboration, D0
AU - Bertram, Iain
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Williams, Mark
AU - Ratoff, Peter
AU - Love, Peter
AU - Rakitin, Alexander
AU - Sopczak, Andre
N1 - © 2008 The American Physical Society 7 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables Modified slightly following review process
PY - 2008/10/23
Y1 - 2008/10/23
N2 - We present an observation for ZZ -> l+l-l'+l'- (l, l' = e or mu) production in ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. Using 1.7 fb-1 of data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, we observe three candidate events with an expected background of 0.14 +0.03 -0.02 events. The significance of this observation is 5.3 standard deviations. The combination of D0 results in this channel, as well as in ZZ -> l+l-nunubar, yields a significance of 5.7 standard deviations and a combined cross section of sigma(ZZ) = 1.60 +/- 0.63 (stat.) +0.16 -0.17 (syst.) pb.
AB - We present an observation for ZZ -> l+l-l'+l'- (l, l' = e or mu) production in ppbar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV. Using 1.7 fb-1 of data collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, we observe three candidate events with an expected background of 0.14 +0.03 -0.02 events. The significance of this observation is 5.3 standard deviations. The combination of D0 results in this channel, as well as in ZZ -> l+l-nunubar, yields a significance of 5.7 standard deviations and a combined cross section of sigma(ZZ) = 1.60 +/- 0.63 (stat.) +0.16 -0.17 (syst.) pb.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=55149084833&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.171803
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.171803
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:55149084833
VL - 101
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 17
M1 - 171803
ER -