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Measurement of W± -boson and Z-boson production cross-sections in pp collisions at √s=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  • ATLAS Collaboration
  • National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest
  • Dep Física and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • University of Lisbon
  • Department of Physics
  • Universidad Andrés Bello
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Massachusetts
  • Adelaide University
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • University of Göttingen
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • The University of Tokyo
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • IN2P3/CNRS
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Bogazici University
  • University of Geneva
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • McGill University
  • CAS - Institute of High Energy Physics
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Kyoto University
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC

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Abstract

The production cross-sections for W± and Z bosons are measured using ATLAS data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.0 pb- 1 collected at a centre-of-mass energy s=2.76 TeV. The decay channels W→ ℓν and Z→ ℓℓ are used, where ℓ can be an electron or a muon. The cross-sections are presented for a fiducial region defined by the detector acceptance and are also extrapolated to the full phase space for the total inclusive production cross-section. The combined (average) total inclusive cross-sections for the electron and muon channels are: σW+→ℓνtot=2312±26(stat.)±27(syst.)±72(lumi.)±30(extr.)pb,σW-→ℓνtot=1399±21(stat.)±17(syst.)±43(lumi.)±21(extr.)pb,σZ→ℓℓtot=323.4±9.8(stat.)±5.0(syst.)±10.0(lumi.)±5.5(extr.)pb.Measured ratios and asymmetries constructed using these cross-sections are also presented. These observables benefit from full or partial cancellation of many systematic uncertainties that are correlated between the different measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Article number901
JournalEuropean Physical Journal C
Volume79
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2019

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