Observation of associated production of a Z boson with a D meson in the forward region
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Aaij2014_Article_ObservationOfAssociatedProduct.pdf
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Author(s)
The LHCb Collaboration
Ilten, Philip J
Williams, Michael
Date Issued
2014
Journal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Aaij, R., et al. "Observation of Associated Production of a Z Boson with a D Meson in the Forward Region." 4 (2014): 091 (12 pp.).
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Abstract
© CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. A search for associated production of a Z boson with an open charm meson is presented using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. Seven candidate events for associated production of a Z boson with a D0 meson and four candidate events for a Z boson with a D+ meson are observed with a combined significance of 5.1 standard deviations. The production cross-sections in the forward region are measured to be σZ → μ+μ−,D0 = 2.50 ± 1.12 ± 0.22 pb, σZ → μ+μ−,D+ = 0.44 ± 0.23 ± 0.03 pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2014)091
