First measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections from run II of the fermilab tevatron collider

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 94; no. 9; p. 091803
• Main Authors: Acosta, D, Affolder, T, Akimoto, T, Albrow, M G, Ambrose, D, Amerio, S, Amidei, D, Anastassov, A, Anikeev, K, Annovi, A, Antos, J, Aoki, M, Apollinari, G, Arisawa, T, Arguin, J-F, Artikov, A, Ashmanskas, W, Attal, A, Azfar, F, Azzi-Bacchetta, P, Bacchetta, N, Bachacou, H, Badgett, W, Barbaro-Galtieri, A, Barker, G J, Barnes, V E, Barnett, B A, Baroiant, S, Barone, M, Bauer, G, Bedeschi, F, Behari, S, Belforte, S, Bellettini, G, Bellinger, J, Benjamin, D, Beretvas, A, Bhatti, A, Binkley, M, Bisello, D, Bishai, M, Blair, R E, Blocker, C, Bloom, K, Blumenfeld, B, Bocci, A, Bodek, A, Bolla, G, Bolshov, A, Booth, P S L, Bortoletto, D, Boudreau, J, Bourov, S, Bromberg, C, Brubaker, E, Budagov, J, Budd, H S, Burkett, K, Busetto, G, Bussey, P, Byrum, K L, Cabrera, S, Calafiura, P, Campanelli, M, Campbell, M, Canepa, A, Casarsa, M, Carlsmith, D, Carron, S, Carosi, R, Cavalli-Sforza, M, Castro, A, Catastini, P, Cauz, D, Cerri, A, Cerri, C, Cerrito, L, Chapman, J, Chen, C, Chen, Y C, Chertok, M, Chiarelli, G, Chlachidze, G, Chlebana, F, Cho, I, Cho, K, Chokheli, D, Chu, M L, Chuang, S, Chung, J Y, Chung, W-H, Chung, Y S, Ciobanu, C I, Ciocci, M A, Clark, A G, Clark, D, Coca, M, Connolly, A, Convery, M, Conway, J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 11-03-2005
• ISSN: 0031-9007; 1079-7114
• DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.091803

We report the first measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections times leptonic branching ratios for pp collisions at square root[s]=1.96 TeV, based on their decays to electrons and muons. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 72 pb(-1) recorded with the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. We test e-mu universality in W decays, and we measure the ratio of leptonic W and Z rates from which the leptonic branching fraction B(W-->lnu) can be extracted as well as an indirect value for the total width of the W and the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element, |V(cs)|.