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Measurement of the inclusive W± and Z/γ* cross sections in the e and μ decay channels in pp collisions at s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 85, 072004 – Published 23 April 2012

Abstract

The production cross sections of the inclusive Drell-Yan processes W±ν and Z/γ* (=e, μ) are measured in proton-proton collisions at s=7TeV with the ATLAS detector. The cross sections are reported integrated over a fiducial kinematic range, extrapolated to the full range, and also evaluated differentially as a function of the W decay lepton pseudorapidity and the Z boson rapidity, respectively. Based on an integrated luminosity of about 35pb1 collected in 2010, the precision of these measurements reaches a few percent. The integrated and the differential W± and Z/γ* cross sections in the e and μ channels are combined, and compared with perturbative QCD calculations, based on a number of different parton distribution sets available at next-to-next-to-leading order.

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  • Received 26 September 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.072004

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Vol. 85, Iss. 7 — 1 April 2012

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