Measurement of W±Z production cross sections and gauge boson polarisation in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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dc.contributor.authorAaboud, M.
dc.contributor.authorAad, G.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, B.
dc.contributor.authorAbdinov, O.
dc.contributor.authorAbeloos, B.
dc.contributor.authorAbhayasinghe, D.K.
dc.contributor.authorAbidi, S.H.
dc.contributor.authorAbouZeid, O.S.
dc.contributor.authorAbraham, N.L.
dc.contributor.authorAbramowicz, H.
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Justin
dc.contributor.authorAnelli, Christopher R.
dc.contributor.authorChiu, Y.H.
dc.contributor.authorGhasemi Bostanabad, M.
dc.contributor.authorHamano, Kenji
dc.contributor.authorHill, Ewan Chin
dc.contributor.authorKeeler, Richard
dc.contributor.authorKowalewski, Robert
dc.contributor.authorLefebvre, Michel
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T00:46:26Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T00:46:26Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents measurements of W±Z production cross sections in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were collected in 2015 and 2016 by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 36.1 fb−1. The W±Z candidate events are reconstructed using leptonic decay modes of the gauge bosons into electrons and muons. The measured inclusive cross section in the detector fiducial region for a single leptonic decay mode is σfid.W±Z→ℓ′νℓℓ=63.7± 1.0 (stat.)± 2.3 (syst.)± 1.4 (lumi.) fb, reproduced by the next-to-next-to-leading-order Standard Model prediction of 61.5+1.4−1.3 fb. Cross sections for W+Z and W−Z production and their ratio are presented as well as differential cross sections for several kinematic observables. An analysis of angular distributions of leptons from decays of W and Z bosons is performed for the first time in pair-produced events in hadronic collisions, and integrated helicity fractions in the detector fiducial region are measured for the W and Z bosons separately. Of particular interest, the longitudinal helicity fraction of pair-produced vector bosons is also measured.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank CERN for the very successful operation of the LHC, as well as the support staff from our institutions without whom ATLAS could not be operated efficiently. We 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-DRF/IRFU, France; SRNSFG, Georgia; BMBF, HGF, and MPG, Germany; GSRT, Greece; RGC, Hong Kong SAR, China; ISF and Benoziyo Center, Israel; INFN, Italy; MEXT and JSPS, Japan; CNRST, Morocco; NWO, Netherlands; RCN,Norway;MNiSWand NCN, Poland; FCT, Portugal; MNE/IFA, Romania; MES of Russia and NRC KI, Russian Federation; JINR; MESTD, Serbia; MSSR, Slovakia; ARRS and MIZŠ, Slovenia; DST/NRF, South Africa; MINECO, Spain; SRC andWallenberg Foundation, Sweden; SERI, SNSF andCantons of Bern andGeneva, Switzerland; MOST, Taiwan; TAEK, Turkey; STFC, UK; DOE and NSF, USA. In addition, individual groups and members have received support from BCKDF, CANARIE, CRC and Compute Canada, Canada; COST, ERC, ERDF, Horizon 2020, andMarie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union; Investissements d’ Avenir Labex and Idex, ANR, France; DFG and AvH Foundation, Germany; Herakleitos, Thales and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF, Greece; BSFNSF and GIF, Israel; CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain; The Royal Society and Leverhulme Trust, UK. 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 (UK) and BNL (USA), the Tier-2 facilities worldwide and large non-WLCG resource providers. Major contributors of computing resources are listed in Ref.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abhayasinghe, D. K., … Zwalinski, L. (2019). Measurement of W±Z production cross sections and gauge boson polarisation in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The European Physical Journal C, 79(6). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7027-6en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7027-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/12355
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe European Physical Journal Cen_US
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomy
dc.titleMeasurement of W±Z production cross sections and gauge boson polarisation in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detectoren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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