Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad; B. Abbott; J. Abdallah; S. Abdel Khalek; O. Abdinov; R. Aben; B. Abi; M. Abolins; O.S. AbouZeid; H. Abramowicz; Mogens Dam; Jørn Dines Hansen; Jørgen Beck Hansen; Stefania Xella; Peter Henrik Hansen; Troels Christian Petersen; Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen; Sascha Mehlhase; Morten Dam Jørgensen; Almut Maria Pingel; Ask Emil Løvschall-Jensen; Alejandro Alonso Diaz; James William Monk; Lars Egholm Pedersen; Graig Wiglesworth; Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, M. Abolins, O.S. AbouZeid, H. Abramowicz, Mogens Dam, Jørn Dines Hansen, Jørgen Beck Hansen, Stefania Xella, Peter Henrik Hansen, Troels Christian Petersen, Lotte Ansgaard Thomsen, Sascha Mehlhase, Morten Dam Jørgensen, Almut Maria PingelAsk Emil Løvschall-Jensen, Alejandro Alonso Diaz, James William Monk, Lars Egholm Pedersen, Graig Wiglesworth, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn Galster

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This paper presents measurements from the ATLAS experiment of the forward-backward asymmetry in the reaction pp → Z/γ^* → l⁺l⁻, with l being electrons or muons, and the extraction of the effective weak mixing angle. The results are based on the full set of data collected in 2011 in pp collisions at the LHC at (Formula presented.), corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb⁻¹. The measured asymmetry values are found to be in agreement with the corresponding Standard Model predictions. The combination of the muon and electron channels yields a value of the effective weak mixing angle of sin²θ_eff ^lept = 0.2308 ± 0.0005(stat.) ± 0.0006(syst.) ± 0.0009(PDF), where the first uncertainty corresponds to data statistics, the second to systematic effects and the third to knowledge of the parton density functions. This result agrees with the current world average from the Particle Data Group fit.

Original language	English
Article number	049
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Volume	2015
Issue number	9
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)049
Publication status	Published - 26 Sept 2015

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abi, B., Abolins, M., AbouZeid, O. S., Abramowicz, H., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., ... Galster, G. A. G. K. (2015). Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), 2015(9), [049]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)049

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, AbouZeid, OS, Abramowicz, H, Dam, M , Hansen, JD , Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW, Pedersen, LE, Wiglesworth, G & Galster, GAGK 2015, 'Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), vol. 2015, no. 9, 049. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)049

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