Measurement of neutral current Drell-Yan production at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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dc.contributor.authorKwan, Tony
dc.contributor.supervisorKeeler, Richard K.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-16T14:24:25Z
dc.date.available2017-08-16T14:24:25Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017-08-16
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomyen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractNeutral current Drell-Yan production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC was studied with the ATLAS detector. The 20.1 inverse femtobarn data set used in this precision measurement was collected in 2012 during which the LHC collided protons at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The production rate or differential cross-section was measured in three-dimensions: invariant mass, absolute rapidity, and cosine of the polar angle in the Collins-Soper frame. A measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry was obtained from the differential cross-section by summing over the forward and the backward events and taking their difference. The three-dimensional differential cross-section measurement presented in this dissertation can be used to constrain the invariant mass- and rapidity-dependent parton distribution functions of the proton and the forward-backward asymmetry results can be used to extract a measurement of the weak mixing angle.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/8426
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectExperimental particle physicsen_US
dc.subjectCERNen_US
dc.subjectLHCen_US
dc.subjectATLASen_US
dc.subjectStandard Modelen_US
dc.subjectDrell-Yanen_US
dc.subjectParton distribution functionsen_US
dc.subjectWeak mixing angleen_US
dc.titleMeasurement of neutral current Drell-Yan production at 8 TeV with the ATLAS detectoren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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