Download or read book A Measurement of the $WZ$ and $ZZ$ Production Cross Sections Using Leptonic Final States in 8.6 Fb${̂-1}$ of $p\bar{p}$ Collisions written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study the processes p{bar p} → WZ → l?ll− and p{bar p} → ZZ → l+l−?{bar {nu}}, where l = e or?. Using 8.6 fb−1 of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron collider, we measure the WZ production cross section to be 4.50{sub -0.66}{sup +0.63} pb which is consistent with, but slightly above a prediction of the standard model. The ZZ cross section is measured to be 1.64 ± 0.46 pb, in agreement with a prediction of the standard model. Combination with an earlier analysis of the ZZ → l+l−l+l− channel yields a ZZ cross section of 1.44{sub -0.34}{sup +0.35} pb.