Measurement of the WW and WZ production cross section using final states with a charged lepton and heavy-flavor jets in the full CDF Run II data set

Abstract

We present a measurement of the total WW and WZ production cross sections in p¯p collision at sqrti(s)=1.96 TeV, in a final state consistent with leptonic W boson decay and jets originating from heavyflavorquarks from either aW or a Z boson decay. This analysis uses the full data set collected with the CDF II detector during Run II of the Tevatron collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9.4 fb^−1.