Precision measurement and interpretation of inclusive W+, W− and Z/γ∗ production cross sections with the ATLAS detector
dc.contributor.author | ATLAS Collaboration | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-05T21:25:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-05T21:25:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B. et al. Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 367. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4911-9 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/27215 | |
dc.description.abstract | High-precision measurements by the ATLAS Collaboration are presented of inclusive W+→ℓ+ν, W−→ℓ−ν¯ and Z/γ∗→ℓℓ (ℓ=e,μ) Drell–Yan production cross sections at the LHC. The data were collected in proton–proton collisions at s√=7TeV with an integrated luminosity of 4.6fb−1. Differential W+ and W− cross sections are measured in a lepton pseudorapidity range |ηℓ|<2.5. Differential Z/γ∗ cross sections are measured as a function of the absolute dilepton rapidity, for |yℓℓ|<3.6, for three intervals of dilepton mass, mℓℓ, extending from 46 to 150GeV. The integrated and differential electron- and muon-channel cross sections are combined and compared to theoretical predictions using recent sets of parton distribution functions. The data, together with the final inclusive e±p scattering cross-section data from H1 and ZEUS, are interpreted in a next-to-next-to-leading-order QCD analysis, and a new set of parton distribution functions, ATLAS-epWZ16, is obtained. The ratio of strange-to-light sea-quark densities in the proton is determined more accurately than in previous determinations based on collider data only, and is established to be close to unity in the sensitivity range of the data. A new measurement of the CKM matrix element |Vcs| is also provided. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | SCOAP3 | en_US |
dc.publisher | SpringerOpen | en_US |
dc.rights | © CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | Precision measurement and interpretation of inclusive W+, W− and Z/γ∗ production cross sections with the ATLAS detector | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kudepartment | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4911-9 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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