Evidence of WW and WZ Production with lepton+jets Final States in pp-bar Collisions at s√=1.96 TeV

Abstract

We present first evidence for WW+WZ production in lepton+jets final states at a hadron collider. The data correspond to 1.07 fb(−1) of integrated luminosity collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron in pp-bar collisions at s√=1.96 TeV. The observed cross section for WW+WZ production is 20.2±4.5 pb, consistent with the standard model and more precise than previous measurements in fully leptonic final states. The probability that background fluctuations alone produce this excess is <5.4×10−6, which corresponds to a significance of 4.4 standard deviations.