Measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in transverse momentum and rapidity in proton–proton collisions at 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.065

Measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in transverse momentum and rapidity in proton–proton collisions at 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

We present a measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in rapidity and transverse momentum using a data sample of pp collision events at a centre-of-mass energy s=8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb⁻¹. The Z boson is identified via its decay to a pair of muons. The measurement provides a precision test of quantum chromodynamics over a large region of phase space. In addition, due to the small experimental uncertainties in the measurement the data has the potential to constrain the gluon parton distribution function in the kinematic regime important for Higgs boson production via gluon fusion. The results agree with the next-to-next-to-leading-order predictions computed with the FEWZ program. The results are also compared to the commonly used leading-order MADGRAPH and next-to-leading-order POWHEG generators.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	187-209
Number of pages	23
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	749
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.07.065
Publication status	Published - Oct 7 2015
Externally published	Yes

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CMS
Physics
Z boson differential cross section

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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Measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in transverse momentum and rapidity in proton–proton collisions at 8 TeV

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