8–13 Aug 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Measurements of W/Z boson production in associations with jets at D0

10 Aug 2011, 15:00
20m
551 A (Rhode Island Convention Center)

551 A

Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Perturbative and non-Perturbative QCD Perturbative and non-Perturbative QCD

Speaker

Ashish Kumar (Department of Physics-Physics Faculty-State University of New Y)

Description

We present measurements of total and differential cross sections for the production of W or Z bosons in association with jets, including detailed study of the production of heavy flavor jets, using up to 6 fb-1 of ppbar collisions collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We present measurements of the inclusive W+n jets total cross sections (with n=1-4) and also differential cross sections for the n-th jet transverse momentum and rapidity. We also present measurements of the W/Z+b-jets production, two important background processes in the searches for the Higgs boson. All measurements are compared to NLO QCD calculations and to Monte Carlo simulations.

Primary author

Ashish Kumar (Department of Physics-Physics Faculty-State University of New Y)

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