Measurements of Four-Lepton Production at the Z Resonance in pp Collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV with ATLAS
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Taylor, Frank E.
Date Issued
June 2014
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Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Aad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, B. Abi, et al. “Measurements of Four-Lepton Production at the Z Resonance in pp Collisions at √s = 7 and 8 TeV with ATLAS.” Physical Review Letters 112, no. 23 (June 2014). © 2014 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration
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Measurements of four-lepton (4ℓ, ℓ = e,μ) production cross sections at the Z resonance in pp collisions at the LHC with the ATLAS detector are presented. For dilepton and four-lepton invariant mass regions m[subscript ℓ+ℓ−] > 5 GeV and 80 < m[subscript 4ℓ] < 100 GeV, the measured cross sections are 76 ± 18(stat) ± 4(syst) ± 1.4(lumi) fb and 107 ± 9(stat) ± 4(syst) ± 3.0(lumi) fb at √s = 7 and 8 TeV, respectively. By subtracting the nonresonant 4ℓ production contributions and normalizing with Z → μ[superscript +]μ[superscript −] events, the branching fraction for the Z boson decay to 4ℓ is determined to be (3.20 ± 0.25(stat) ± 0.13(syst)) × 10[superscript −6], consistent with the standard model prediction.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.231806
