Measurement of differential cross sections and W + /W − cross-section ratios for W boson production in association with jets at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2018)077

Measurement of differential cross sections and W ⁺ /W ⁻ cross-section ratios for W boson production in association with jets at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

The ATLAS collaboration

National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
NOVA University Lisbon
National Center for Energy, Nuclear Science and Technology
CERN
Mohamed I University
Aix-Marseille Université
University of Oklahoma
Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
IN2P3/CNRS
University of Toronto
University of California at Santa Cruz
University of Sussex
Tel Aviv University
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
Stockholm University
Oskar Klein Centre
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
King's College London
The University of Tokyo
AGH University of Krakow
Northern Illinois University
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
University of Granada
Boston University
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Kyoto University
Lund University
University of Geneva
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
University of Bologna
University of Victoria BC
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Radboud University Nijmegen
Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Czech Technical University in Prague
University of Salento

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This paper presents a measurement of the W boson production cross section and the W⁺/W⁻ cross-section ratio, both in association with jets, in proton-proton collisions at s=8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is performed in final states containing one electron and missing transverse momentum using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb⁻¹. Differential cross sections for events with at least one or two jets are presented for a range of observables, including jet transverse momenta and rapidities, the scalar sum of transverse momenta of the visible particles and the missing transverse momentum in the event, and the transverse momentum of the W boson. For a subset of the observables, the differential cross sections of positively and negatively charged W bosons are measured separately. In the cross-section ratio of W⁺/W⁻ the dominant systematic uncertainties cancel out, improving the measurement precision by up to a factor of nine. The observables and ratios selected for this paper provide valuable input for the up quark, down quark, and gluon parton distribution functions of the proton.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original language	English
Article number	77
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2018
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2018)077
State	Published - May 1 2018

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Measurement of differential cross sections and W ⁺ /W ⁻ cross-section ratios for W boson production in association with jets at √s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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