Measurement of differential production cross sections for Z/?* bosons in association with jets in p¯p collisions at vs=1.96TeV

Differential cross sections for the production of Z bosons or off-shell photons ?* in association with jets are measured in proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy vs=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/?* boson and three or more jets, the inclusive cross section for production of Z/?* 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.We thank the Fermilab staff and the technical staffs of the participating institutions for their vital contributions. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Science Foundation; the Italian Istituto Nazionaledi Fisica Nucleare; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada;the National Science Council of the Republic of China; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the A. P. Sloan Foundation; the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany; the Korean World Class University Program and the National Research Foundation of Korea ;the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Royal Society, UK; the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Slovak R&D Agency; the Academy of Finland; the Australian Research Council (ARC); and the EU community Marie Curie Fellowship Contract No. 302103