Measurement of differential cross sections in the kinematic angular variable ϕ\phi^* for inclusive Z boson production in pp collisions at s=\sqrt{s}= 8 TeV

Collaboration
Oct 22, 2017
42 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 03 (2018) 172
  • Published: Mar 28, 2018
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CMS-SMP-17-002,
  • CERN-EP-2017-234
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Abstract: (Springer)
Measurements of differential cross sections dσ/dϕ^{*} and double-differential cross sections d2^{2}σ/dϕ^{*}d|y| for inclusive Z boson production are presented using the dielectron and dimuon final states. The kinematic observable ϕ^{*} correlates with the dilepton transverse momentum but has better resolution, and y is the dilepton rapidity. The analysis is based on data collected with the CMS experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb1^{−1}. The normalised cross section (1/σ) dσ/dϕ^{*}, within the fiducial kinematic region, is measured with a precision of better than 0.5% for ϕ^{*} < 1. The measurements are compared to theoretical predictions and they agree, typically, within few percent.
Note:
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • Particle correlations and fluctuations
  • proton-proton scattering
  • p p: colliding beams
  • Z0: hadroproduction
  • Drell-Yan process
  • Z0: leptonic decay
  • muon: pair production
  • electron: pair production
  • dilepton: transverse momentum