Collider signatures containing bosons and jets are particularly
interesting. Recent theoretical effort has been devoted to determining
predictions of W+/-/Z + multiple parton production; the high statistics
sample of W+/-/Z + jets events collected at the Tevatron is a valuable
testbed for probing the validity of these calculations. The final state
containing a Z or W boson and one or more b-jets is a promising Higgs
search channel at the Tevatron and could be a window to new physics at the
LHC. These searches benefit from a deep understanding of the production
of W+/-/Z + heavy flavor jets which constitutes a significant background
to the more exotic sources of this signature. Herein the latest Tevatron
results on these production mechanisms are reviewed with an emphasis on
comparison of data results to the latest theoretical models.
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