Search for standard model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson at CDF

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T. Aaltonen²⁴, J. Adelman¹⁴, T. Akimoto⁵⁵, M. G. Albrow¹⁸, B. Álvarez González¹², S. Amerio^43,*, D. Amidei³⁵, A. Anastassov³⁸, A. Annovi²⁰, J. Antos¹⁵, G. Apollinari¹⁸, A. Apresyan⁴⁸, T. Arisawa⁵⁷, A. Artikov¹⁶, W. Ashmanskas¹⁸, A. Attal⁴, A. Aurisano⁵³, F. Azfar⁴², P. Azzurri^46,†, W. Badgett¹⁸, A. Barbaro-Galtieri²⁹, V. E. Barnes⁴⁸, B. A. Barnett²⁶, V. Bartsch³¹, G. Bauer³³, P.-H. Beauchemin³⁴, F. Bedeschi⁴⁶, P. Bednar¹⁵, D. Beecher³¹, S. Behari²⁶, G. Bellettini^46,‡, J. Bellinger⁵⁹, D. Benjamin¹⁷, A. Beretvas¹⁸, J. Beringer²⁹, A. Bhatti⁵⁰, M. Binkley¹⁸, D. Bisello^43,*, I. Bizjak³¹, R. E. Blair², C. Blocker⁷, B. Blumenfeld²⁶, A. Bocci¹⁷, A. Bodek⁴⁹, V. Boisvert⁴⁹, G. Bolla⁴⁸, D. Bortoletto⁴⁸, J. Boudreau⁴⁷, A. Boveia¹¹, B. Brau¹¹, A. Bridgeman²⁵, L. Brigliadori⁴³, C. Bromberg³⁶, E. Brubaker¹⁴, J. Budagov¹⁶, H. S. Budd⁴⁹, S. Budd²⁵, K. Burkett¹⁸, G. Busetto^43,*, P. Bussey²², A. Buzatu³⁴, K. L. Byrum², S. Cabrera^17,§, C. Calancha³², M. Campanelli³⁶, M. Campbell³⁵, F. Canelli¹⁸, A. 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Dube⁵², J. Efron³⁹, A. Elagin⁵³, R. Erbacher⁸, D. Errede²⁵, S. Errede²⁵, R. Eusebi¹⁸, H. C. Fang²⁹, S. Farrington⁴², W. T. Fedorko¹⁴, R. G. Feild⁶⁰, M. Feindt²⁷, J. P. Fernandez³², C. Ferrazza^46,†, R. Field¹⁹, G. Flanagan⁴⁸, R. Forrest⁸, M. Franklin²³, J. C. Freeman¹⁸, I. Furic¹⁹, M. Gallinaro⁵¹, J. Galyardt¹³, F. Garberson¹¹, J. E. Garcia⁴⁶, A. F. Garfinkel⁴⁸, K. Genser¹⁸, H. Gerberich²⁵, D. Gerdes³⁵, A. Gessler²⁷, S. Giagu^51,d, V. Giakoumopoulou³, P. Giannetti⁴⁶, K. Gibson⁴⁷, J. L. Gimmell⁴⁹, C. M. Ginsburg¹⁸, N. Giokaris³, M. Giordani^54,a, P. Giromini²⁰, M. Giunta^46,‡, G. Giurgiu²⁶, V. Glagolev¹⁶, D. Glenzinski¹⁸, M. Gold³⁷, N. Goldschmidt¹⁹, A. Golossanov¹⁸, G. Gomez¹², G. Gomez-Ceballos³³, M. Goncharov⁵³, O. González³², I. Gorelov³⁷, A. T. Goshaw¹⁷, K. Goulianos⁵⁰, A. Gresele^43,*, S. Grinstein²³, C. Grosso-Pilcher¹⁴, R. C. Group¹⁸, U. Grundler²⁵, J. Guimaraes da Costa²³, Z. Gunay-Unalan³⁶, C. Haber²⁹, K. Hahn³³, S. R. Hahn¹⁸, E. Halkiadakis⁵², B.-Y. Han⁴⁹, J. Y. Han⁴⁹, R. 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¹Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 11529, Republic of China
²Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
³University of Athens, 157 71 Athens, Greece
⁴Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
⁵Baylor University, Waco, Texas 76798, USA
⁶Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Bologna, I-40127 Bologna, Italy
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¹⁴Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
¹⁵Comenius University, 842 48 Bratislava, Slovakia; Institute of Experimental Physics, 040 01 Kosice, Slovakia
¹⁶Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, RU-141980 Dubna, Russia
¹⁷Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
¹⁸Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
¹⁹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
²⁰Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, I-00044 Frascati, Italy
²¹University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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²⁴Division of High Energy Physics, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland
²⁵University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
²⁶The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
²⁷Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Universität Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
²⁸Center for High Energy Physics: Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea; Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea; Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea; Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, 305-806, Korea; Chonnam National University, Gwangju, 500-757, Korea
²⁹Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
³⁰University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZE, United Kingdom
³¹University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
³²Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
³³Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
³⁴Institute of Particle Physics: McGill University, Montréal, Canada H3A 2T8; and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1A7
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⁴⁰Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
⁴¹Osaka City University, Osaka 588, Japan
⁴²University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, United Kingdom
⁴³Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova-Trento, I-35131 Padova, Italy
⁴⁴LPNHE, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/IN2P3-CNRS, UMR7585, Paris, F-75252 France
⁴⁵University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
⁴⁶Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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⁴⁸Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
⁴⁹University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁵⁰The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA
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⁵⁴Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Trieste/Udine, Italy
⁵⁵University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
⁵⁶Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA
⁵⁷Waseda University, Tokyo 169, Japan
⁵⁸Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA
⁵⁹University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
⁶⁰Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA

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