Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of W bosons produced in proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

• Autores: Alconada Verzini, María Josefina; Alonso, Francisco; Arduh, Francisco Anuar; Dova, María Teresa; Hoya, Joaquín; Monticelli, Fernando Gabriel; Orellana, Gonzalo Enrique; Wahlberg, Hernán Pablo; The ATLAS Collaboration
• Año de publicación: 2019
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Ciencias Exactas; Física; asymmetry; proton–proton collisions; ATLAS detector
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de La Plata

This paper presents measurements of the W⁺ → μ⁺ν and W⁻ → μ⁻ν cross-sections and the associated charge asymmetry as a function of the absolute pseudorapidity of the decay muon. The data were collected in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb⁻¹. The precision of the cross-section measurements varies between 0.8 and 1.5% as a function of the pseudorapidity, excluding the 1.9% uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The charge asymmetry is measured with an uncertainty between 0.002 and 0.003. The results are compared with predictions based on next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations with various parton distribution functions and have the sensitivity to discriminate between them.
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Facultad de Ciencias Exactas
Instituto de Física La Plata