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dc.contributor.authorBaringer, Philip S.
dc.contributor.authorBean, Alice
dc.contributor.authorMurray, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorSanders, Stephen J.
dc.contributor.authorCMS Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-29T18:10:42Z
dc.date.available2016-11-29T18:10:42Z
dc.date.issued2015-10-07
dc.identifier.citationMeasurement of the Z boson differential cross section in transverse momentum and rapidity in proton–proton collisions at 8 TeV. (2015). Physics Letters B, 749, 187–209. doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.065en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/22052
dc.description.abstractWe present a measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in rapidity and transverse momentum using a data sample of pp collision events at a centre-of-mass energy View the MathML sources=8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb−1. The Z boson is identified via its decay to a pair of muons. The measurement provides a precision test of quantum chromodynamics over a large region of phase space. In addition, due to the small experimental uncertainties in the measurement the data has the potential to constrain the gluon parton distribution function in the kinematic regime important for Higgs boson production via gluon fusion. The results agree with the next-to-next-to-leading-order predictions computed with the fewz program. The results are also compared to the commonly used leading-order MadGraph and next-to-leading-order powheg generators.en_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.rights©2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCMSen_US
dc.subjectPhysicsen_US
dc.subjectZ boson differential cross sectionen_US
dc.titleMeasurement of the Z boson differential cross section in transverse momentum and rapidity in proton–proton collisions at 8 TeVen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
kusw.kuauthorBaringer, Philip S.
kusw.kuauthorBean, Alice
kusw.kuauthorMurray, Michael J.
kusw.kuauthorSanders, Stephen J.
kusw.kudepartmentPhysics and Astronomyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.065en_US
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher versionen_US
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.en_US
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©2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3.
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as: ©2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3.