Measurement of the production of a $W$ boson in association with a charm quark in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.17182/hepdata.63197· OSTI ID:1893311

Aad, Georges ^[1]

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1. OSTI

CERN-LHC. The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb^-1 of pp collision data at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected in 2011 with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea quark distributions is determined to be 0.96 +0.26,-0.30 at Q^2 = 1.9 GeV^2 which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3) symmetric composition of the light quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio sigma(W^+ + cbar)/sigma(W^- + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions on the s-sbar asymmetry.

• Research Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC) (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
• Contributing Organization: The ATLAS collaboration; The ATLAS collaboration
• OSTI ID: 1893311
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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