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

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Mar 11;94(9):091803. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.091803. Epub 2005 Mar 9.

Abstract

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)|.