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Measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections in p\overline{p} collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1\hbox{.}96\, {{\rm TeV}}

A Abulencia1, D Acosta2, J Adelman3, T Affolder4, T Akimoto5, M G Albrow6, D Ambrose6, S Amerio7, D Amidei8, A Anastassov9, K Anikeev6, A Annovi10, J Antos11, M Aoki5, G Apollinari6, J-F Arguin12,13, T Arisawa14, A Artikov15, W Ashmanskas6, A Attal16, F Azfar17, P Azzi-Bacchetta7, P Azzurri10, N Bacchetta7, H Bachacou18, W Badgett6, A Barbaro-Galtieri18, V E Barnes19, B A Barnett20, S Baroiant21, V Bartsch22, G Bauer23, F Bedeschi10, S Behari20, S Belforte24, G Bellettini10, J Bellinger25, A Belloni23, E Ben-Haim6, D Benjamin26, A Beretvas6, J Beringer18, T Berry27, A Bhatti28, M Binkley6, D Bisello7, M Bishai6, R E Blair29, C Blocker30, K Bloom8, B Blumenfeld20, A Bocci28, A Bodek31, V Boisvert31, G Bolla19, A Bolshov23, D Bortoletto19, J Boudreau32, S Bourov6, A Boveia4, B Brau4, C Bromberg33, E Brubaker3, J Budagov15, H S Budd31, S Budd1, K Burkett6, G Busetto7, P Bussey34, K L Byrum29, S Cabrera26, M Campanelli35, M Campbell8, F Canelli16, A Canepa19, D Carlsmith25, R Carosi10, S 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We report the first measurements of inclusive W and Z boson cross-sections times the corresponding leptonic branching ratios for p\overline{p} collisions at \sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV based on the decays of the W and Z bosons into electrons and muons. The data were recorded with the CDF II detector at the Fermilab Tevatron and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 72.0 ± 4.3 pb−1. We test e-μ lepton universality in W decays by measuring the ratio of the W → μν to Weν cross sections and determine a value of 0.991 ± 0.004(stat.) ± 0.011(syst.) for the ratio of W − ℓ − ν couplings (gμ/ge). Since there is no sign of non-universality, we combine our cross-section measurements in the different lepton decay modes and obtain \sigma_{W} \times\, {\rm Br} (\ppbar \rightarrow W \rightarrow \ell \nu) = 2.749 \pm 0.010({\rm stat.}) \,\pm\, 0.053({\rm syst.}) \,\pm\, 0.165({\rm lum.}) nb and \sigma_{\gamma^{*}/Z} \times\, {\rm Br} (\ppbar \rightarrow \gamma^{*}/Z \rightarrow \ell \ell) = 254.9 \,\pm\, 3.3({\rm stat.}) \,\pm\, 4.6({\rm syst.}) \pm 15.2({\rm lum.}) pb for dilepton pairs in the mass range between 66 GeV/c2 and 116 GeV/c2. We compute the ratio R of the W → ℓν to Z → ℓℓ cross sections taking all correlations among channels into account and obtain R = 10.84 ± 0.15(stat.) ± 0.14(syst.) including a correction for the virtual photon exchange component in our measured γ*/Z → ℓℓ cross section. Based on the measured value of R, we extract values for the W leptonic branching ratio, Br(W → ℓν)= 0.1082 ± 0.0022; the total width of the W boson, Γ(W)= 2092 ± 42 MeV; and the ratio of W and Z boson total widths, Γ(W)/Γ(Z)= 0.838 ± 0.017. In addition, we use our extracted value of Γ(W) whose value depends on various electroweak parameters and certain CKM matrix elements to constrain the Vcs CKM matrix element, |Vcs| = 0.976 ± 0.030.


PACS

13.85.Qk Inclusive production with identified leptons, photons, or other nonhadronic particles

11.30.Er Charge conjugation, parity, time reversal, and other discrete symmetries

14.70.Hp Z bosons

13.38.Be Decays of W bosons

12.15.-y Electroweak interactions

14.70.Fm W bosons

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2007)

Received 28 August 2007

Published 5 November 2007



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