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Measurement of the W → ℓν and Z/γ* → ℓℓ production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  • Author(s): Aad, G;
  • Abbott, B;
  • Abdallah, J;
  • Abdelalim, AA;
  • Abdesselam, A;
  • Abdinov, O;
  • Abi, B;
  • Abolins, M;
  • Abramowicz, H;
  • Abreu, H;
  • Acerbi, E;
  • Acharya, BS;
  • Ackers, M;
  • Adams, DL;
  • Addy, TN;
  • Adelman, J;
  • Aderholz, M;
  • Adomeit, S;
  • Adorisio, C;
  • Adragna, P;
  • Adye, T;
  • Aefsky, S;
  • Aguilar-Saavedra, JA;
  • Aharrouche, M;
  • Ahlen, SP;
  • Ahles, F;
  • Ahmad, A;
  • Ahmed, H;
  • Ahsan, M;
  • Aielli, G;
  • Akdogan, T;
  • Åkesson, TPA;
  • Akimoto, G;
  • Akimov, AV;
  • Aktas, A;
  • Alam, MS;
  • Alam, MA;
  • Albrand, S;
  • Aleksa, M;
  • Aleksandrov, IN;
  • Aleppo, M;
  • Alessandria, F;
  • Alexa, C;
  • Alexander, G;
  • Alexandre, G;
  • Alexopoulos, T;
  • Alhroob, M;
  • Aliev, M;
  • Alimonti, G;
  • Alison, J;
  • Aliyev, M;
  • Allport, PP;
  • Allwood-Spiers, SE;
  • Almond, J;
  • Aloisio, A;
  • Alon, R;
  • Alonso, A;
  • Alonso, J;
  • Alviggi, MG;
  • Amako, K;
  • Amaral, P;
  • Ambrosio, G;
  • Amelung, C;
  • Ammosov, VV;
  • Amorim, A;
  • Amorós, G;
  • Amram, N;
  • Anastopoulos, C;
  • Andeen, T;
  • Anders, CF;
  • Anderson, KJ;
  • Andreazza, A;
  • Andrei, V;
  • Andrieux, ML;
  • Anduaga, XS;
  • Angerami, A;
  • Anghinolfi, F;
  • Anjos, N;
  • Annovi, A;
  • Antonaki, A;
  • Antonelli, M;
  • Antonelli, S;
  • Antos, J;
  • Antunovic, B;
  • Anulli, F;
  • Aoun, S;
  • Apolle, R;
  • Arabidze, G;
  • Aracena, I;
  • Arai, Y;
  • Arce, ATH;
  • Archambault, JP;
  • Arfaoui, S;
  • Arguin, JF;
  • Argyropoulos, T;
  • Arik, E;
  • Arik, M;
  • Armbruster, AJ;
  • Arms, KE;
  • Armstrong, SR
  • et al.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2010)060Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
Abstract

First measurements of the W → ℓν and Z/γ * → ℓℓ (ℓ = e, μ) production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at √ s = 7TeV are presented using data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The results are based on 2250 W → ℓν and 179 Z/γ* → ℓℓ candidate events selected from a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of approximately 320 nb-1. The measured total W and Z/ γ*-boson production cross sections times the respective leptonic branching ratios for the combined electron and muon channels are σtotW · BR(W → ℓν) = 9.96 ± 0.23(stat) ± 0.50(syst) ± 1.10(lumi) nb and σtotZ/γ* · BR(Z/ γ* → ℓℓ) = 0.82 ± 0.06 (stat) ± 0.05 (syst) ± 0.09 (lumi) nb (within the invariant mass window 66 < mℓℓ < 116 GeV). The W/Z cross-section ratio is measured to be 11.7 ± 0.9(stat) ± 0.4(syst). In addition, measurements of the W+ and W- production cross sections and of the lepton charge asymmetry are reported. Theoretical predictions based on NNLO QCD calculations are found to agree with the measurements.

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