Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at √s =7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Taylor, Frank E
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This paper presents measurements from the ATLAS experiment of the forward-backward asymmetry in the reaction pp → Z/γ* → l[superscript +]l[superscript −], with l being electrons or muons, and the extraction of the effective weak mixing angle. The results are based on the full set of data collected in 2011 in pp collisions at the LHC at s√=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb[superscript −1]. The measured asymmetry values are found to be in agreement with the corresponding Standard Model predictions. The combination of the muon and electron channels yields a value of the effective weak mixing angle of sin[superscript 2]θ[subscript eff][superscript lept] = 0.2308 ± 0.0005(stat.) ± 0.0006(syst.) ± 0.0009(PDF), where the first uncertainty corresponds to data statistics, the second to systematic effects and the third to knowledge of the parton density functions. This result agrees with the current world average from the Particle Data Group fit.
Date issued
2015-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Springer-Verlag/SISSA
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The ATLAS collaboration et al. “Measurement of the Forward-Backward Asymmetry of Electron and Muon Pair-Production in Pp Collisions at √S =7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2015.9 (2015): n. pag.
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1029-8479
1126-6708