Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 091803 (2005) [7 pages]

First Measurements of Inclusive W and Z Cross Sections from Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider

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D. Acosta et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 28 June 2004; published 9 March 2005

We report the first measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections times leptonic branching ratios for pp̅ collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV, based on their decays to electrons and muons. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 72  pb-1 recorded with the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We test e-μ universality in W decays, and we measure the ratio of leptonic W and Z rates from which the leptonic branching fraction B(W→ℓν) can be extracted as well as an indirect value for the total width of the W and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element, |Vcs|.


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URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.091803
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.091803
PACS: 13.38.Be, 12.38.Qk, 13.85.Qk, 14.70.Fm

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