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Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV

  • L. Adamczyk
  • , G. Agakishiev
  • , M. M. Aggarwal
  • , Z. Ahammed
  • , A. V. Alakhverdyants
  • , I. Alekseev
  • , J. Alford
  • , B. D. Anderson
  • , C. D. Anson
  • , D. Arkhipkin
  • , E. Aschenauer
  • , G. S. Averichev
  • , J. Balewski
  • , A. Banerjee
  • , Z. Barnovska
  • , D. R. Beavis
  • , R. Bellwied
  • , M. J. Betancourt
  • , R. R. Betts
  • , A. Bhasin
  • A. K. Bhati, H. Bichsel, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L. C. Bland, I. G. Bordyuzhin, W. Borowski, J. Bouchet, A. V. Brandin, S. G. Brovko, E. Bruna, S. Bueltmann, I. Bunzarov, T. P. Burton, J. Butterworth, X. Z. Cai, H. Caines, M. Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, D. Cebra, R. Cendejas, M. C. Cervantes, P. Chaloupka, S. Chattopadhyay, H. F. Chen, J. H. Chen, J. Y. Chen, L. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, A. Chikanian, W. Christie, P. Chung, J. Chwastowski, M. J.M. Codrington, R. Corliss, J. G. Cramer, H. J. Crawford, X. Cui, A. Davila Leyva, L. C. De Silva, R. R. Debbe, T. G. Dedovich, J. Deng, R. Derradi De Souza, S. Dhamija, L. Didenko, F. Ding, A. Dion, P. Djawotho, X. Dong, J. L. Drachenberg, J. E. Draper, C. M. Du, L. E. Dunkelberger, J. C. Dunlop, L. G. Efimov, M. Elnimr, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, L. Eun, O. Evdokimov, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, J. Fedorisin, R. G. Fersch, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, C. A. Gagliardi, D. R. Gangadharan, F. Geurts, S. Gliske, Y. N. Gorbunov, O. G. Grebenyuk, D. Grosnick, S. Gupta, W. Guryn, B. Haag, O. Hajkova, A. Hamed, L. X. Han, J. W. Harris, J. P. Hays-Wehle, S. Heppelmann, A. Hirsch, G. W. Hoffmann, D. J. Hofman, S. Horvat, B. Huang, H. Z. Huang, P. Huck, T. J. Humanic, L. Huo, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, C. Jena, J. Joseph, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, K. Kang, J. Kapitan, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, A. Kesich, D. Kettler, D. P. Kikola, J. Kiryluk, A. Kisiel, V. Kizka, S. R. Klein, D. D. Koetke, T. Kollegger, J. Konzer, I. Koralt, L. Koroleva, W. Korsch, L. Kotchenda, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, L. Kumar, M. A.C. Lamont, J. M. Landgraf, S. Lapointe, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, W. Leight, M. J. Levine, C. Li, L. Li, W. Li, X. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, Z. M. Li, L. M. Lima, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, R. S. Longacre, Y. Lu, X. Luo, A. Luszczak, G. L. Ma, Y. G. Ma, D. P. Mahapatra, R. Majka, O. I. Mall, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. Masui, H. S. Matis, D. McDonald, T. S. McShane, S. Mioduszewski, M. K. Mitrovski, Y. Mohammed, B. Mohanty, B. Morozov, M. G. Munhoz, M. K. Mustafa, M. Naglis, B. K. Nandi, Md Nasim, T. K. Nayak, L. V. Nogach, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, A. Ohlson, V. Okorokov, E. W. Oldag, R. A.N. Oliveira, D. Olson, P. Ostrowski, M. Pachr, B. S. Page, S. K. Pal, Y. A. Pan, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, T. Pawlak, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, W. Peryt, P. Pile, M. Planinic, J. Pluta, D. Plyku, N. Poljak, J. Porter, A. M. Poskanzer, C. B. Powell, D. Prindle, C. Pruneau, N. K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, P. R. Pujahari, J. Putschke, H. Qiu, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R. L. Ray, R. Redwine, R. Reed, C. K. Riley, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, N. R. Sahoo, I. Sakrejda, S. Salur, A. Sandacz, J. Sandweiss, E. Sangaline, A. Sarkar, J. Schambach, R. P. Scharenberg, A. M. Schmah, B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, T. R. Schuster, J. Seele, J. Seger, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, M. Shao, B. Sharma, M. Sharma, S. S. Shi, Q. Y. Shou, E. P. Sichtermann, R. N. Singaraju, M. J. Skoby, D. Smirnov, N. Smirnov, D. Solanki, P. Sorensen, U. G. Desouza, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D.S. Stanislaus, S. G. Steadman, J. R. Stevens, R. Stock, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A.P. Suaide, M. C. Suarez, M. Sumbera, X. M. Sun, Y. Sun, Z. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, T. J.M. Symons, A. Szanto De Toledo, J. Takahashi, A. H. Tang, Z. Tang, L. H. Tarini, T. Tarnowsky, D. Thein, J. H. Thomas, J. Tian, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, M. Tokarev, T. A. Trainor, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, B. A. Trzeciak, O. D. Tsai, J. Turnau, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, G. Van Buren, G. Van Nieuwenhuizen, J. A. Vanfossen, R. Varma, G. M.S. Vasconcelos, F. Videbæk, Y. P. Viyogi, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, M. Wada, F. Wang, G. Wang, H. Wang, J. S. Wang, Q. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, G. D. Westfall, C. Whitten, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, W. Witzke, Y. F. Wu, Z. Xiao, W. Xie, K. Xin, H. Xu, N. Xu, Q. H. Xu, W. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, L. Xue, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, P. Yepes, Y. Yi, K. Yip, I. K. Yoo, M. Zawisza, H. Zbroszczyk, J. B. Zhang, S. Zhang, W. M. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, X. Zhu, Y. H. Zhu, Y. Zoulkarneeva
  • Cracow University of Technology
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • Panjab University
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • Kent State University
  • Ohio State University
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • University of Houston
  • University of Illinois at Chicago
  • University of Jammu
  • University of Washington
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • SUBATECH
  • Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
  • University of California at Davis
  • Yale University
  • Old Dominion University
  • Rice University
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • Texas A&M University
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Central China Normal University
  • Tsinghua University
  • Creighton University
  • University of California at Berkeley
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Shandong University
  • Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • CAS - Institute of Modern Physics
  • Wayne State University
  • University of Kentucky
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Valparaiso University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Purdue University
  • Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
  • Warsaw University of Technology
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Universidade de São Paulo
  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • Pusan National University
  • University of Zagreb
  • University of Rajasthan
  • Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute)
  • Michigan State University
  • United States Naval Academy

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Abstract

We report measurements of the charge-separated W +( -)→e +( -) +ν ēe) and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV. These results are based on 13.2pb -1 of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the eν channel were measured to be σ(pp→W +X)•BR(W +→e +ν e)=117.3±5.9(stat)±6.2(syst)±15.2(lumi)pb, and σ(pp→W -X)•BR(W -→e -ν ̄e)=43.3±4.6(stat)±3.4(syst) ±5.6(lumi)pb. For Z/γ * production, σ(pp→Z/γ *X)•BR(Z/γ *→e +e -)=7.7±2.1(stat)-0.9+0. 5(syst)±1.0(lumi)pb was measured for di-lepton invariant masses me +e - between 70 and 110GeV/c2. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, σ(pp→W +X)/σ(pp→W -X), at √s=500GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections.

Original languageEnglish
Article number092010
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume85
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - May 16 2012

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