Boson Production in Association with Jets in ppbar Collisions at sqrt(s) = 1.96 TeV

by Dr Andrea Messina (CERN)

Monday 3 Sept 2007, 16:30 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

Final states containing a vector boson and multiple jets provide an important testing ground for perturbative QCD at high momentum transfers. They serve as a signal channel for Standard Model (SM) processes (such as top production), as well as search channel for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the SM (such as supersymmetry). I will present the latest results on W and Z boson production in association with jets using the CDF II detector. I will discuss the challenges of making such measurements at an hadronic collider giving particular emphasis to the jet reconstruction and background estimate. I will discuss how the latest leading order and next to leading order calculations compare with these measurements, and how such measurements serve as critical input for many high pt analyses.

* Tea & coffee will be served at 16:00.

Slides Messina-BosonJets-EP.pdf