Observation of associated production of a Z boson with a D meson in the forward region
A search for associated production of a Z boson with an open charm meson is presented using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. Seven candidate events for associated pr...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) |
| Repositório: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:recercat.cat:2445/185687 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/185687 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Hadrons Gran Col·lisionador d'Hadrons Física de partícules Experiments Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) Particle physics |
| Resumo: | A search for associated production of a Z boson with an open charm meson is presented using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. Seven candidate events for associated production of a Z boson with a D0 meson and four candidate events for a Z boson with a D+ meson are observed with a combined significance of 5.1 standard deviations. The production crosssections in the forward region are measured to be σZ→µ+µ−,D0 = 2.50 ± 1.12 ± 0.22 pb σZ→µ+µ−,D+ = 0.44 ± 0.23 ± 0.03 pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic |
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