W/Z+Jets and W/Z+HF Production at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper presents recent measurements of W/Z bosons produced with jets at the Tevatron, comparing results to QCD predictions and Monte Carlo models, crucial for top, Higgs, and new physics studies.

Contribution

It provides the most recent experimental data on W/Z + jets and heavy-flavor jets at the Tevatron, enhancing understanding of these processes for particle physics analyses.

Findings

Measurements agree with perturbative QCD predictions

Data constrains Monte Carlo generator models

Results improve background modeling for new physics searches

Abstract

The CDF and D0 collaborations performed a comprehensive study of the production of vector bosons, W and Z, in association with energetic jets. Understanding the W/Z + jets and W/Z + c, b-jets processes is of paramount importance for the top quark physics, for the Higgs boson measurements, and for many new physics searches. In this contribution the most recent measurements of the associated production of jets and vector bosons in Run II at the Tevatron are presented. The measurements are compared to different perturbative QCD predictions and to several Monte Carlo generators.