Measurement of the transverse momentum and φ ∗ η distributions of Drell–Yan lepton pairs in proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
Distributions of transverse momentum pℓℓT and the related angular variable φ ∗ η of Drell–Yan lepton pairs are measured in 20.3 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Measurements in electron-pair and muon-pair final states are corrected for detector effec...
| Autores: | , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Universidad Nacional de La Plata |
| Repositorio: | SEDICI (UNLP) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/79234 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/79234 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ciencias Exactas Física Drell–Yan lepton proton-proton collisions quantum chromodynamics |
| Sumario: | Distributions of transverse momentum pℓℓT and the related angular variable φ ∗ η of Drell–Yan lepton pairs are measured in 20.3 fb−1 of proton–proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Measurements in electron-pair and muon-pair final states are corrected for detector effects and combined. Compared to previous measurements in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV, these new measurements benefit from a larger data sample and improved control of systematic uncertainties. Measurements are performed in bins of lepton-pair mass above, around and below the Z-boson mass peak. The data are compared to predictions from perturbative and resummed QCD calculations. For values of φ ∗ η < 1 the predictions from the Monte Carlo generator ResBos are generally consistent with the data within the theoretical uncertainties. However, at larger values of φ ∗ η this is not the case. Monte Carlo generators based on the parton-shower approach are unable to describe the data over the full range of pℓℓT while the fixed-order prediction of Dynnlo falls below the data at high values of pℓℓT . ResBos and the parton-shower Monte Carlo generators provide a much better description of the evolution of the φ ∗ η and pℓℓT distributions as a function of lepton-pair mass and rapidity than the basic shape of the data. |
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