Measurement of W-boson production in 1.8-TeV p¯p collisions

The cross section for the production and subsequent decay to electron and neutrino of the W intermediate vector boson has been measured in 1.8-TeV p¯p collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider. An analysis of events with missing transverse energy greater than 25 GeV and with an electron of transverse energy greater than 15 GeV from a datum sample of 25.3 ${\mathrm{nb}}^{\mathrm{-}1}$ gives σB=2.6±0.6±0.5 nb.