Measurement of the Differential Cross Sections for the Associated Production of a W boson and Jets in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=13  TeV

A measurement of the differential cross sections for a W boson produced in association with jets in the muon decay channel is presented. The measurement is based on 13 TeV proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2  fb⁻¹, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. Th...

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Main Authors: CMS Collaboration, Abercrombie, Daniel Robert, Allen, Brandon Leigh, Azzolini, Virginia, Barbieri, Richard Alexander, Baty, Austin Alan, Bi, Ran, Brandt, Stephanie Akemi, Busza, Wit, Cali, Ivan Amos, D'Alfonso, Mariarosaria, Demiragli, Zeynep, Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo, Goncharov, Maxim, Hsu, Dylan George, Iiyama, Yutaro, Innocenti, Gian Michele, Klute, Markus, Kovalskyi, Dmytro, Lai, Yue Shi, Lee, Yen-Jie, Levin, Amy Elizabeth, Luckey Jr, P David, Maier, Benedikt, Marini, Andrea Carlo, McGinn, Christopher Francis, Mironov, Camelia Maria, Narayanan, Siddharth Madhavan, Niu, Xinmei, Paus, Christoph M. E., Roland, Christof E, Roland, Gunther M, Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob Maxillian Henry, Stephans, George S. F., Tatar, Kaya, Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru, Wang, Jiaping, Wang, Ta-Wei, Wyslouch, Boleslaw
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Physical Society 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112262
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Summary:A measurement of the differential cross sections for a W boson produced in association with jets in the muon decay channel is presented. The measurement is based on 13 TeV proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2  fb⁻¹, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. The cross sections are reported as functions of jet multiplicity, jet transverse momentum pT, jet rapidity, the scalar pT sum of the jets, and angular correlations between the muon and each jet for different jet multiplicities. The measured cross sections are in agreement with predictions that include multileg leading-order (LO) and next-to-LO matrix element calculations interfaced with parton showers, as well as a next-to-next-to-LO calculation for the W boson and one jet production.