Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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

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Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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

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Abstract

The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb^-1 of pp collision data at √s = 7TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96⁺ _- ⁰ ₀.₃₀ at Q² = 1.9 GeV, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally the cross-section ratio σ(W⁺ + c)/σ(W- +c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s–s quark asymmetry.

Original language	English
Article number	1405
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Volume	2014
Issue number	068
ISSN	1126-6708
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068
Publication status	Published - May 2014

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Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abi, B., Abolins, M., Dam, M., Hansen, J. D., Pedersen, L. E., Hansen, J. B., Xella, S., Hansen, P. H., Petersen, T. C., Galster, G. A. G. K., Thomsen, L. A., Mehlhase, S., Jørgensen, M. D., ... Wiglesworth, G. (2014). Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), 2014(068), [1405]. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068

Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdallah, J, Abdel Khalek, S, Abdinov, O, Aben, R, Abi, B, Abolins, M, Dam, M , Hansen, JD, Pedersen, LE, Hansen, JB , Xella, S , Hansen, PH , Petersen, TC, Galster, GAGK, Thomsen, LA, Mehlhase, S, Jørgensen, MD, Pingel, AM, Løvschall-Jensen, AE, Alonso Diaz, A, Monk, JW & Wiglesworth, G 2014, 'Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), vol. 2014, no. 068, 1405. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068

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Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at √s= 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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