Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
Measurements of fiducial cross sections for the electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z-boson are presented. The measurements are performed using 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at t...
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| description | Measurements of fiducial cross sections for the electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z-boson are presented. The measurements are performed using 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The electroweak component is extracted by a fit to the dijet invariant mass distribution in a fiducial region chosen to enhance the electroweak contribution over the dominant background in which the jets are produced via the strong interaction. The electroweak cross sections measured in two fiducial regions are in good agreement with the Standard Model expectations and the background-only hypothesis is rejected with significance above the 5σ level. The electroweak process includes the vector boson fusion production of a Z-boson and the data are used to place limits on anomalous triple gauge boson couplings. In addition, measurements of cross sections and differential distributions for inclusive Z-boson-plus-dijet production are performed in five fiducial regions, each with different sensitivity to the electroweak contribution. The results are corrected for detector effects and compared to predictions from the Sherpa and Powheg event generators. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/885902022-10-01T06:08:44Z Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector Taylor, Frank E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Taylor, Frank E. Measurements of fiducial cross sections for the electroweak production of two jets in association with a Z-boson are presented. The measurements are performed using 20.3 fb[superscript −1] of proton-proton collision data collected at a centre-of-mass energy of √s = 8 TeV by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The electroweak component is extracted by a fit to the dijet invariant mass distribution in a fiducial region chosen to enhance the electroweak contribution over the dominant background in which the jets are produced via the strong interaction. The electroweak cross sections measured in two fiducial regions are in good agreement with the Standard Model expectations and the background-only hypothesis is rejected with significance above the 5σ level. The electroweak process includes the vector boson fusion production of a Z-boson and the data are used to place limits on anomalous triple gauge boson couplings. In addition, measurements of cross sections and differential distributions for inclusive Z-boson-plus-dijet production are performed in five fiducial regions, each with different sensitivity to the electroweak contribution. The results are corrected for detector effects and compared to predictions from the Sherpa and Powheg event generators. United States. Dept. of Energy National Science Foundation (U.S.) Brookhaven National Laboratory 2014-08-07T17:51:24Z 2014-08-07T17:51:24Z 2014-04 2014-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1029-8479 1126-6708 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88590 Aad, G., T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, S. Abdel Khalek, O. Abdinov, R. Aben, et al. “Measurement of the Electroweak Production of Dijets in Association with a Z-Boson and Distributions Sensitive to Vector Boson Fusion in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 8 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, no. 4 (April 2014). © CERN, for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7586-7253 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2014)031 Journal of High Energy Physics Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag Springer-Verlag |
| spellingShingle | Taylor, Frank E. Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector |
| title | Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector |
| title_full | Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector |
| title_short | Measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a Z-boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector |
| title_sort | measurement of the electroweak production of dijets in association with a z boson and distributions sensitive to vector boson fusion in proton proton collisions at √s 8 tev using the atlas detector |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88590 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7586-7253 |
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