Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

dc.contributor.authorATLAS Collaboration
dc.contributor.authorAaboud, M.
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Justin
dc.contributor.authorChiu, Y. H.
dc.contributor.authorElliot, Alison A.
dc.contributor.authorFincke-Keeler, J.
dc.contributor.authorHamano, Kenji
dc.contributor.authorHill, Ewan Chin
dc.contributor.authorKeeler, Richard
dc.contributor.authorKowalewski, Robert
dc.contributor.authorKuwertz, E. S.
dc.contributor.authorKwan, Tony
dc.contributor.authorLeBlanc, Matthew Edgar
dc.contributor.authorLefebvre, Michel
dc.contributor.authorMcPherson, Robert A.
dc.contributor.authorSeuster, Rolf
dc.contributor.authorSobie, Randall J.
dc.contributor.authorTrovatelli, M.
dc.contributor.authorVenturi, M.
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-07T18:40:58Z
dc.date.available2019-10-07T18:40:58Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a measurement of the triple-differential cross section for the Drell-Yan process Z/gamma* -> l(+)l(-) where l is an electron or a muon. The measurement is performed for invariant masses of the lepton pairs, m(ll), between 46 and 200 GeV using a sample of 20.2 fb(-1) of pp collisions data at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 8TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012. The data are presented in bins of invariant mass, absolute dilepton rapidity, vertical bar y(ll)vertical bar, and the angular variable cos theta* between the outgoing lepton and the incoming quark in the Collins-Soper frame. The measurements are performed in the range vertical bar y(ll)vertical bar < 2.4 in the muon channel, and extended to vertical bar y(ll)vertical bar < 3.6 in the electron channel. The cross sections are used to determine the Z boson forward-backward asymmetry as a function of vertical bar y(ll)vertical bar and m(ll). The measurements achieve high-precision, below the percent level in the pole region, excluding the uncertainty in the integrated luminosity, and are in agreement with predictions. These precision data are sensitive to the parton distribution functions and the effective weak mixing angle.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe acknowledge the support of ANPCyT, Argentina; YerPhI, Armenia; ARC, Australia; BMWFW and FWF, Austria; ANAS, Azerbaijan; SSTC, Belarus; CNPq and FAPESP, Brazil; NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada; CERN; CONICYT, Chile; CAS, MOST and NSFC, China; COLCIENCIAS, Colombia; MSMT CR, MPO CR and VSC CR, Czech Republic; DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark; IN2P3-CNRS, CEA-DSM/IRFU, France; SRNSF, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF, I-CORE and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN, Norway; MNiSW and NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZS, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF and Cantons of Bern and Geneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, United Kingdom; DOE and NSF, United States of America. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, the Canada Council, CANARIE, CRC, Compute Canada, FQRNT, and the Ontario Innovation Trust, Canada; EPLANET, ERC, ERDF, FP7, Horizon 2020 and Marie Sk lodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; In-vestissements d'Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, Region Auvergne and Fondation Partager le Savoir, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; BSF, GIF and Minerva, Israel; BRF, Norway; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain; the Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom. The crucial computing support from all WLCG partners is acknowledged gratefully, in particular from CERN, the ATLAS Tier-1 facilities at TRIUMF (Canada), NDGF (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), CC-IN2P3 (France), KIT/GridKA (Germany), INFN-CNAF (Italy), NL-T1 (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), ASGC (Taiwan), RAL (U.K.) and BNL (U.S.A.), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in ref.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThe ATLAS collaboration; Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdinov, O.; Abeloos, B.; … & Zwalinski, L. (2017). Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(12), article 59. DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2017)059en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)059
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11220
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of High Energy Physicsen_US
dc.subjectHadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomy
dc.titleMeasurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeVen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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