@article{3152322, title = "Search for WZ plus ZZ production with missing transverse energy plus jets with b enhancement at root s=1.96 TeV", author = "Aaltonen, T. and Alvarez Gonzalez, B. and Amerio, S. and Amidei, D. and and Anastassov, A. and Annovi, A. and Antos, J. and Apollinari, G. and and Appel, J. A. and Apresyan, A. and Arisawa, T. and Artikov, A. and and Asaadi, J. and Ashmanskas, W. and Auerbach, B. and Aurisano, A. and and Azfar, F. and Badgett, W. and Barbaro-Galtieri, A. and Barnes, V. E. and and Barnett, B. A. and Barria, P. and Bartos, P. and Bauce, M. and Bauer, G. and and Bedeschi, F. and Beecher, D. and Behari, S. and Bellettini, G. and and Bellinger, J. and Benjamin, D. and Beretvas, A. and Bhatti, A. and and Binkley, M. and Bisello, D. and Bizjak, I. and Bland, K. R. and and Blumenfeld, B. and Bocci, A. and Bodek, A. and Bortoletto, D. and and Boudreau, J. and Boveia, A. and Brigliadori, L. and Brisuda, A. and and Bromberg, C. and Brucken, E. and Bucciantonio, M. and Budagov, J. and and Budd, H. S. and Budd, S. and Burkett, K. and Busetto, G. and Bussey, P. and and Buzatu, A. and Calancha, C. and Camarda, S. and Campanelli, M. and and Campbell, M. and Canelli, F. and Carls, B. and Carlsmith, D. and Carosi, and R. and Carrillo, S. and Carron, S. and Casal, B. and Casarsa, M. and and Castro, A. and Catastini, P. and Cauz, D. and Cavaliere, V. and and Cavalli-Sforza, M. and Cerri, A. and Cerrito, L. and Chen, Y. C. and and Chertok, M. and Chiarelli, G. and Chlachidze, G. and Chlebana, F. and and Cho, K. and Chokheli, D. and Chou, J. P. and Chung, W. H. and Chung, Y. and S. and Ciobanu, C. I. and Ciocci, M. A. and Clark, A. and Clarke, C. and and Compostella, G. and Convery, M. E. and Conway, J. and Corbo, M. and and Cordelli, M. and Cox, C. 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A. and Thomson, E. and Ttito-Guzman, P. and Tkaczyk, S. and and Toback, D. and Tokar, S. and Tollefson, K. and Tomura, T. and Tonelli, and D. and Torre, S. and Torretta, D. and Totaro, P. and Trovato, M. and Tu, and Y. and Ukegawa, F. and Uozumi, S. and Varganov, A. and Vazquez, F. and and Velev, G. and Vellidis, C. and Vidal, M. and Vila, I. and Vilar, R. and and Vizan, J. and Vogel, M. and Volpi, G. and Wagner, P. and Wagner, R. L. and and Wakisaka, T. and Wallny, R. and Wang, S. M. and Warburton, A. and and Waters, D. and Weinberger, M. and Wester, III, W. C. and Whitehouse, B. and and Whiteson, D. and Wicklund, A. B. and Wicklund, E. and Wilbur, S. and and Wick, F. and Williams, H. H. and Wilson, J. S. and Wilson, P. and Winer, and B. L. and Wittich, P. and Wolbers, S. and Wolfe, H. and Wright, T. and and Wu, X. and Wu, Z. and Yamamoto, K. and Yamaoka, J. and Yang, T. and and Yang, U. K. and Yang, Y. C. and Yao, W. -M. and Yeh, G. P. and Yi, K. and and Yoh, J. and Yorita, K. and Yoshida, T. and Yu, G. B. and Yu, I. and and Yu, S. S. and Yun, J. C. and Zanetti, A. and Zeng, Y. and Zucchelli, S. and and CDF Collaboration", journal = "Physical Review D", year = "2012", volume = "85", number = "1", publisher = "AMER PHYSICAL SOC", issn = "2470-0010, 2470-0029", doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.85.012002", abstract = "Diboson production (WW + WZ + ZZ) has been observed at the Tevatron in hadronic decay modes dominated by the WW process. This paper describes the measurement of the cross section of WZ and ZZ events in final states with large (sic)(T) and using b-jet identification as a tool to suppress WW contributions. Because of the limited energy resolution, we cannot distinguish between partially hadronic decays of WZ and ZZ, and we measure the sum of these processes. The number of signal events is extracted using a simultaneous fit to the invariant mass distribution of the two jets for events with two b-jet candidates and events with fewer than two b-jet candidates. We measure a cross section sigma(p (p) over bar -> WZ, ZZ) = 5.8(3.0)(+3.6) pb, in agreement with the standard model." }