Abstract
We present a measurement of the inclusive production cross section for Z bosons decaying to tau leptons in pp collisions at {radical}(s)=1.96 TeV. We use a channel with one hadronically-decaying and one electronically-decaying tau. This measurement is based on 350 pb{sup -1} of CDF Run II data. Using a sample of 504 opposite sign e{tau} events with a total expected background of 190 events, we obtain {sigma}(pp{yields}4Z){center_dot}B(Z{yields}{tau}{tau})=264{+-}23(stat){+-}14(syst){+-}15(lumi) pb, in agreement with the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD prediction. This is the first CDF cross section measurement using hadronically-decaying taus in Run II.
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