Measurements of W/Z production with the ATLAS detector

Journal Article · Mon Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4826773· OSTI ID:22280652

Köneke, Karsten ^[1]

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1. CERN, CH-1211 Genève 23 (Switzerland)

W and Z boson production have been measured in the electron, muon and tau decay channels at the LHC with the ATLAS detector. Total and differential cross sections, defined in terms of the decay lepton kinematics, have been measured as a function of rapidity and transverse momentum. Ratios of the cross sections demonstrate sensitivity to lepton universality. The kinematic distributions constrain parton densities and QCD calculations, including resummations of soft gluon radiation and the matching of NLO matrix elements (or high multiplicity tree-level matrix elements) to parton shower approximations. The polarization of W bosons is also measured, as, for the first time, is the polarization of the tau lepton in W → τν decays.

• OSTI ID: 22280652
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1560, Issue 1; Conference: CIPANP 2012: 11. conference on the intersections of particle and nuclear physics, St. Petersburg, FL (United States), 29 May - 3 Jun 2012; Other Information: (c) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
APPROXIMATIONS
CERN LHC
DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS
ELECTRONS
GLUONS
MATRIX ELEMENTS
MULTIPARTICLE SPECTROMETERS
MULTIPLICITY
MUONS
PARTICLE DECAY
PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
PARTICLE RAPIDITY
POLARIZATION
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
TAU PARTICLES
TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM
W MINUS BOSONS
W PLUS BOSONS
Z NEUTRAL BOSONS