Session E7: Electroweak Physics with W's and Z's

3:30 PM–5:06 PM, Saturday, April 16, 2005
Marriott Tampa Waterside Room: Room 1

Chair: John Laiho, Fermilab

Abstract ID: BAPS.2005.APR.E7.3

Abstract: E7.00003 : A Limit on WW+WZ Boson Production in the Lepton + MET + Jets Decay Channel

4:06 PM–4:18 PM

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Author:

Jorgen Sjolin
(Oxford University)

We study WW+WZ production in the lepton + missing tranvserse energy + jets channel at the Tevatron Run II using about 200 pb$^{-1}$ of CDF data. An upper limit on the cross-section for WW+WZ production is derived and kinematic distributions are compared to Standard Model predictions. The method for estimating the number of signal events uses the deviation in shape between the measured jet-jet invariant mass and the expected background in order to avoid a strong dependence on the absolute background normalization.

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