Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

M. Aaboud; G. Aad; B. Abbott; O. Abdinov; B Abeloos; S.H. Abidi; O.S. AbouZeid; NL Abraham; H. Abramowicz; H. Abreu; R. Abreu; Y. Abulaiti; S. Acharya; Shin-ichi Adachi; L. Adamczyk; J P Adelman; M. Adersberger; T. Adye; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; xtf324 xtf324; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster; Simon Holm Stark; Geert-Jan Besjes; Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele; Flavia de Almeida Dias; Milena Bajic

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Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

M. Aaboud, G. Aad, B. Abbott, O. Abdinov, B Abeloos, S.H. Abidi, O.S. AbouZeid, NL Abraham, H. Abramowicz, H. Abreu, R. Abreu, Y. Abulaiti, S. Acharya, Shin-ichi Adachi, L. Adamczyk, J P Adelman, M. Adersberger, T. Adye, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines HansenJørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen, xtf324 xtf324, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster, Simon Holm Stark, Geert-Jan Besjes, Fabian Alexander Jürgen Thiele, Flavia de Almeida Dias, Milena Bajic

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This paper presents a measurement of the triple-differential cross section for the Drell-Yan process Z/γ^* → ℓ⁺ℓ⁻ where ℓ is an electron or a muon. The measurement is performed for invariant masses of the lepton pairs, m_ℓℓ, between 46 and 200 GeV using a sample of 20.2 fb⁻¹ of pp collisions data at a centre-of-mass energy of s=8 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2012. The data are presented in bins of invariant mass, absolute dilepton rapidity, |y_ℓℓ|, and the angular variable cos θ^* between the outgoing lepton and the incoming quark in the Collins-Soper frame. The measurements are performed in the range |y_ℓℓ| < 2.4 in the muon channel, and extended to |y_ℓℓ| < 3.6 in the electron channel. The cross sections are used to determine the Z boson forward-backward asymmetry as a function of |y_ℓℓ| and m_ℓℓ. The measurements achieve high-precision, below the percent level in the pole region, excluding the uncertainty in the integrated luminosity, and are in agreement with predictions. These precision data are sensitive to the parton distribution functions and the effective weak mixing angle.

Original language	English
Article number	069
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2017
Issue number	12
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)059
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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Aaboud, M., Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdinov, O., Abeloos, B., Abidi, S. H., AbouZeid, O. S., Abraham, NL., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, S., Adachi, S., Adamczyk, L., Adelman, J. P., Adersberger, M., Adye, T., Dam, M., ... Bajic, M. (2017). Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(12), Article 069. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)059

Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H, Abreu, H, Abreu, R, Abulaiti, Y, Acharya, S, Adachi, S, Adamczyk, L, Adelman, JP, Adersberger, M, Adye, T, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, xtf324, X, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G, Galster, GAGK, Stark, SH, Besjes, G-J, Thiele, FAJ, de Almeida Dias, F & Bajic, M 2017, 'Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV', Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2017, no. 12, 069. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2017)059

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Measurement of the Drell-Yan triple-differential cross section in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV

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