Determination of the Strange-Quark Density of the Proton from ATLAS Measurements of the W¿l¿ and Z¿ll Cross Sections

G. Aad, Nele Maria Philomena Boelaert, Mogens Dam, John Renner Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Peter Henrik Hansen, Jørn Dines Hansen, Simon Johann Franz Heisterkamp, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Sascha Mehlhase, Esben Bryndt Klinkby, Troels Christian Petersen, Björn Stefan Nilsson, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Stefania Xella

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Abstract

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.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftPhysical Review Letters
Vol/bind109
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)012201
Antal sider17
ISSN0031-9007
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 5 jul. 2012

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