Measurement of the inclusive W.sup. ±./sup. and Z/gamma* cross sections in the electron and muon decay channels in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

0389663 - FZÚ 2013 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Aad, G. - Abbott, B. - Abdallah, J. - Chudoba, Jiří - Gallus, Petr - Gunther, Jaroslav - Hruška, I. - Juránek, Vojtěch - Kepka, Oldřich - Kupčo, Alexander - Kůs, Vlastimil - Lipinský, L. - Lokajíček, Miloš - Marčišovský, Michal - Mikeštíková, Marcela - Myška, Miroslav - Němeček, Stanislav - Panušková, M. - Růžička, Pavel - Schovancová, Jaroslava - Šícho, Petr - Staroba, Pavel - Svatoš, Michal - Taševský, Marek - Tic, Tomáš - Valenta, J. - Vrba, Václav - Zeman, Martin … Total 3025 authors
Measurement of the inclusive W ^± and Z/gamma* cross sections in the electron and muon decay channels in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector.
Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. Roč. 85, č. 7 (2012), "072004-1"-"072004-43". ISSN 1550-7998
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LA08032
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10100502
Keywords : lepton rapidity * quantum chromodynamics * perturbation theory * parton: distribution function * ATLAS * Drell-Yan process * p p inclusive reaction
Subject RIV: BF - Elementary Particles and High Energy Physics
Impact factor: 4.691, year: 2012
http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v85/i7/e072004

The production cross sections of the inclusive Drell-Yan processes W to l nu and Z/gamma to ll (l=e,mu) are measured in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. The cross sections are reported integrated over a fiducial kinematic range, extrapolated to the full range and also evaluated differentially as a function of the W decay lepton pseudorapidity and the Z boson rapidity, respectively. Based on an integrated luminosity of about 35 pb^-1 collected in 2010, the precision of these measurements reaches a few per cent. The integrated and the differential W+- and Z/gamma cross sections in the e and mu channels are combined, and compared with perturbative QCD calculations, based on a number of different parton distribution sets available at NNLO.
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