Allbrooke, B M M, Asquith, L, Cerri, A, Chavez Barajas, C A, De Santo, A, Salvatore, F, Santoyo Castillo, I, Suruliz, K, Sutton, M R, Vivarelli, I and The ATLAS Collaboration, (2017) Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV using the ZZ→ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′+ and ZZ→ℓ−ℓ+νv̄ decay channels with the ATLAS detector. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 (1). a99. ISSN 1126-6708
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Abstract
A measurement of the ZZ production cross section in the ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′ + and ℓ−ℓ+νv̄ channels (ℓ = e, μ) in proton-proton collisions at s√=8s=8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 is presented. The fiducial cross sections for ZZ→ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′ + and ZZ→ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ are measured in selected phase-space regions. The total cross section for ZZ events produced with both Z bosons in the mass range 66 to 116 GeV is measured from the combination of the two channels to be 7.3 ± 0.4(stat) ± 0.3(syst)− 0.1− 0.2(lumi) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model prediction of 6. 6− 0.6+ 0.7 pb. The differential cross sections in bins of various kinematic variables are presented. The differential event yield as a function of the transverse momentum of the leading Z boson is used to set limits on anomalous neutral triple gauge boson couplings in ZZ production.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy |
Research Centres and Groups: | Experimental Particle Physics Research Group |
Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics |
Depositing User: | Billy Wichaidit |
Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2017 12:34 |
Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2017 12:42 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/69421 |
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