ELECTROWEAK MEASUREMENTS FROM RUN II AT THE TEVATRON

Abstract

The CDF and DØ detectors were fully commissioned for physics running in Run II at the Tevatron [Formula: see text] collider in early 2002. Since then both experiments have collected data samples corresponding to an integrated luminosity of around ∫L=200 pb -1 at a [Formula: see text] centre-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text]. Datasets corresponding ∫L=120 pb-1 have been analyzed for physics so far. Recent electroweak measurements from Run II are reviewed. Cross section times branching ratio measurements (σ· Br ) are presented for the intermediate vector bosons (IVB's) in their leptonic decay modes: W→ℓν and Z→ℓ+ℓ-. For the first time, a combination of the σ· Br results from the CDF and DØ experiments is made; this includes using a consistent choice of the total inelastic [Formula: see text] cross section for the luminosity determinations of the two experiments. Quantities derived from these σ· Br values are also updated. These include: R ℓ the ratio of the σ· Br values for W and Z; Br (W→ℓν), the leptonic branching ratio of the W; and Γw, the total decay width of the W. Other measurements using events containing W and Z leptonic decays are presented, including studies that probe the QCD phenomenology of W/Z production and searches for events containing two intermediate vector bosons.