W/Z + jet production at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper discusses W/Z boson production with jets at the Tevatron, comparing experimental measurements to QCD predictions, and highlights its relevance for Higgs searches, BSM physics, and calibration.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive comparison of W/Z plus jet measurements with NLO QCD predictions at the Tevatron, including heavy and light flavor jets.

Findings

Measurements agree with NLO QCD within uncertainties

Models vary in describing heavy flavor jet production

Results inform Higgs searches and calibration methods

Abstract

Vector boson plus jet production is interesting for Higgs search, beyond the Standard Model physics and provides standard candles for calibration. This is complementary to inclusive jet production measurements which provide precision tests of perturbative QCD. A multitude of W/Z plus heavy and light flavour jet measurements in ppbar collisions at a centre of mass energy of sqrt{s}=1.96TeV is discussed. Next-to-Leading order perturbative QCD predictions and various models are compared to the measurements.