Measurement of the production cross section for a W boson in association with a charm quark in proton–proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV
The strange quark content of the proton is probed through the measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and a charm (c) quark in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 $$\,\text {Te}\hspace{-....
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153315 |
| Summary: | The strange quark content of the proton is probed through the measurement of the production cross section for a W boson and a charm (c) quark in proton–proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13
$$\,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V}$$
Te
V
. The analysis uses a data sample corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 138
$$\,\text {fb}^{-1}$$
fb
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collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. The W bosons are identified through their leptonic decays to an electron or a muon, and a neutrino. Charm jets are tagged using the presence of a muon or a secondary vertex inside the jet. The
$$\hbox {W}+\hbox {c}$$
W
+
c
production cross section and the cross section ratio
$$R_\textrm{c}^{\pm }= \sigma ({\hbox {W}}^{+}+\bar{\text {c}})/\sigma (\hbox {W}^{-}+{\textrm{c}})$$
R
c
±
=
σ
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W
+
+
c
¯
)
/
σ
(
W
-
+
c
)
are measured inclusively and differentially as functions of the transverse momentum and the pseudorapidity of the lepton originating from the W boson decay. The precision of the measurements is improved with respect to previous studies, reaching 1% in
$$R_\textrm{c}^{\pm }= 0.950 \pm 0.005\,\text {(stat)} \pm 0.010 \,\text {(syst)} $$
R
c
±
=
0.950
±
0.005
(stat)
±
0.010
(syst)
. The measurements are compared with theoretical predictions up to next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. |
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