Baringer, Philip S.Bean, AliceCoppage, DonHensel, CarstenJabeen, S.Wilson, Graham WallaceGardner, J.Christofek, L.2014-10-232014-10-232005-04-11V. M. Abazov et al. (D0 Collaboration). (2005). "Measurement of σ(pp-bar→Z)⋅Br(Z→ττ) at s√=1.96  TeV." Physical Review D, 77(7):072004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.072004.1550-7998https://hdl.handle.net/1808/15374This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.072004.We present a measurement of the cross section for Z production times the branching fraction to τ leptons, σ⋅Br(Z→τ(+)τ(−)), in pp¯ collisions at s√=1.96  TeV in the channel in which one τ decays into μνμντ, and the other into hadrons+ν(τ) or eν(e)ν(τ). The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 226  pb(−1) collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The final sample contains 2008 candidate events with an estimated background of 55%. From this we obtain σ⋅Br(Z→τ+τ−)=237±15(stat)±18(sys)±15(lum)pb, in agreement with the standard model prediction.Article10.1103/PhysRevD.71.072004openAccess