TY - JOUR
T1 - Determination of the Strange-Quark Density of the Proton from ATLAS Measurements of the W¿l¿ and Z¿ll Cross Sections
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Boelaert, Nele Maria Philomena
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, John Renner
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Heisterkamp, Simon Johann Franz
AU - Jørgensen, Morten Dam
AU - Mehlhase, Sascha
AU - Klinkby, Esben Bryndt
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Nilsson, Björn Stefan
AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil
AU - Xella, Stefania
PY - 2012/7/5
Y1 - 2012/7/5
N2 - A QCD analysis is reported of ATLAS data on inclusive W± and Z boson production in pp collisions at the LHC, jointly with ep deep-inelastic scattering data from HERA. The ATLAS data exhibit sensitivity to the light quark sea composition and magnitude at Bjorken x∼0.01. Specifically, the data support the hypothesis of a symmetric composition of the light quark sea at low x. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea quark distributions is determined to be 1.00-0.28+0.25 at absolute four-momentum transfer squared Q2=1.9GeV2 and x=0.023.
AB - A QCD analysis is reported of ATLAS data on inclusive W± and Z boson production in pp collisions at the LHC, jointly with ep deep-inelastic scattering data from HERA. The ATLAS data exhibit sensitivity to the light quark sea composition and magnitude at Bjorken x∼0.01. Specifically, the data support the hypothesis of a symmetric composition of the light quark sea at low x. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea quark distributions is determined to be 1.00-0.28+0.25 at absolute four-momentum transfer squared Q2=1.9GeV2 and x=0.023.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.012001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.012001
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 109
SP - 012201
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 1
ER -