The CDF experiment at the Tevatron has used p anti-p collisions
at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV to measure the production cross sections of W and Z
bosons using several leptonic final states. An indirect measurement of the
W width and the ratio of tau and electron electroweak couplings have been
extracted. The forward-backward charge asymmetry, A_FB, in Drell-Yan
dilectron production has been measured up to an invariant mass of 600
GeV/c^2. CDF has also started looking for WW production in the dilepton
channel, WW' -> ll' nu nu, with the aim of measuring its cross section and
derive limits on the anomalous WWZ and WW_gamma couplings. The presence of
a top quark signal in the Tevatron data has been reestablished by measuring
the top quark pair production cross section in the dilepton channel,
tt-bar -> WbWb-bar -> l-bar nu_l bl' nu-bar_l, b-bar and in the lepton plus
jets channel, tt-bar -> WbWb-bar -> qq-bar'; bl nu-bar_l b-bar + 1-bar nu_l
bqq-bar' b-bar. A pre-tagged lepton plus jets sample has also been used to
reconstruct the top quark mass.
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Updated: Thursday, 2003 June 19 14:39:43 CDT automatically from input from "Carol I. Picciolo"