Electroweak measurements at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reviews electroweak measurements at the Tevatron, highlighting progress in studying W and Z boson production, including differential cross sections and diboson processes, with recent observations and future prospects.

Contribution

It reports on the latest measurements of electroweak boson production and diboson processes at the Tevatron, including differential cross sections and the observation of various diboson channels.

Findings

Observation of Wgamma, Zgamma, WW, and WZ production channels.

Measurement of differential cross sections for single boson production.

Expected observation of ZZ production with larger data samples.

Abstract

The increasing size of the data samples recorded by the CDF and DO experiments at the Tevatron enables studies of a wide range of processes involving the electroweak bosons W and Z. Single boson production is now looked at in terms of differential cross sections such as rapidity or transverse momentum dependence. Diboson production cross-sections are several orders of magnitude smaller than single boson production cross-sections, but all combinations Wgamma, Zgamma, WW and WZ have been observed. ZZ production is expected at a rate just below the observation threshold with current data sample sizes, but this channel is expected to be accessible to the Tevatron experiments soon.