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Register a new userMeasurement of $sin^2theta^{rm lept}_{rm eff}$ using $e^+e^-$ pairs from $gamma^*/Z$ bosons produced in $pbar{p}$ collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV
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At the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton ($pbar{p}$) collider, Drell-Yan lepton pairs are produced in the process $p bar{p} rightarrow e^+e^- + X$ through an intermediate $gamma^*/Z$ boson. The forward-backward asymmetry in the polar-angle distribution of the $e^-$ as a function of the $e^+e^-$-pair mass is used to obtain $sin^2theta^{rm lept}_{rm eff}$, the effective leptonic determination of the electroweak-mixing parameter $sin^2theta_W$. The measurement sample, recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF), corresponds to 9.4~fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity from $pbar{p}$ collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV, and is the full CDF Run II data set. The value of $sin^2theta^{rm lept}_{rm eff}$ is found to be $0.23248 pm 0.00053$. The combination with the previous CDF measurement based on $mu^+mu^-$ pairs yields $sin^2theta^{rm lept}_{rm eff} = 0.23221 pm 0.00046$. This result, when interpreted within the specified context of the standard model assuming $sin^2 theta_W = 1 - M_W^2/M_Z^2$ and that the $W$- and $Z$-boson masses are on-shell, yields $sin^2theta_W = 0.22400 pm 0.00045$, or equivalently a $W$-boson mass of $80.328 pm 0.024 ;{rm GeV}/c^2$.
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Drell-Yan lepton pairs are produced in the process $pbar{p} rightarrow e^+e^- + X$ through an intermediate $gamma^*/Z$ boson. The lepton angular distributions are used to provide information on the electroweak-mixing parameter $sin^2theta_W$ via its observable effective-leptonic $sin^2theta_W$, or $sin^2theta^{lept}_{eff}$. A new method to infer $sin^2theta_W$, or equivalently, the W-boson mass M_W in the on-shell scheme, is developed and tested using a previous CDF Run II measurement of angular distributions from electron pairs in a sample corresponding to 2.1 fb-1 of integrated luminosity from $pbar{p}$ collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV. The value of $sin^2theta^{lept}_{eff}$ is found to be 0.2328 +- 0.0010. Within a specified context of the standard model, this results in $sin^2theta_W$ = 0.2246 +- 0.0009 which corresponds to a W-boson mass of 80.297 +- 0.048 GeV/c^2, in agreement with previous determinations in electron-position collisions and at the Tevatron collider.
Drell-Yan lepton pairs are produced in the process $pbar{p} rightarrow mu^+mu^- + X$ through an intermediate $gamma^*/Z$ boson. The forward-backward asymmetry in the polar-angle distribution of the $mu^-$ as a function of the invariant mass of the $mu^+mu^-$ pair is used to obtain the effective leptonic determination $sin^2 theta^{lept}_{eff}$ of the electroweak-mixing parameter $sin^2 theta_W$, from which the value of $sin^2 theta_W$ is derived assuming the standard model. The measurement sample, recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF), corresponds to 9.2 fb-1 of integrated luminosity from $pbar{p}$ collisions at a center-of-momentum energy of 1.96 TeV, and is the full CDF Run II data set. The value of $sin^2 theta^{lept}_{eff}$ is found to be 0.2315 +- 0.0010, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined in quadrature. When interpreted within the context of the standard model using the on-shell renormalization scheme, where $sin^2 theta_W = 1 - M_W^2/M_Z^2$, the measurement yields $sin^2 theta_W$ = 0.2233 +- 0.0009, or equivalently a W-boson mass of 80.365 +- 0.047 GeV/c^2. The value of the W-boson mass is in agreement with previous determinations in electron-positron collisions and at the Tevatron collider.
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Differential cross sections for the production of $Z$ bosons or off-shell photons $gamma^*$ in association with jets are measured in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy $sqrt{s}=1.96$ TeV using the full data set collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab in Tevatron Run II, and corresponding to 9.6 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. Results include first measurements at CDF of differential cross sections in events with a $Z/gamma^*$ boson and three or more jets, the inclusive cross section for production of $Z/gamma^*$ and four or more jets, and cross sections as functions of various angular observables in lower jet-multiplicity final states. Measured cross sections are compared to several theoretical predictions.
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