Measurement of the<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>W</mml:mi><mml:mi>W</mml:mi></mml:math>and<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>W</mml:mi><mml:mi>Z</mml:mi></mml:math>production cross section using final states with a charged lepton and heavy-flavor jets in the full CDF Run II data set

Summary

We present a measurement of the total $WW$ and $WZ$ production cross sections in $p\overline{p}$ collision at $\sqrt{s}=1.96\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$, in a final state consistent with leptonic $W$ boson decay and jets originating from heavy-flavor quarks from either a $W$ or a $Z$ boson decay. This analysis uses the full data set collected with the CDF II detector during Run II of the Tevatron collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $9.4\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$. An analysis of the dijet mass spectrum provides $3.7\ensuremath{\sigma}$ evidence of the summed production processes of either $WW$ or $WZ$ bosons with a measured total cross section of ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{WW+WZ}=13.7\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}3.9\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{pb}$. Independ