Published October 7, 2015
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Measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in transverse momentum and rapidity in proton–proton collisions at 8TeV
Abstract
We present a measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in rapidity and transverse momentum using a data sample of pp collision events at a centre-of-mass energy √s = 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb^(−1). The Z boson is identified via its decay to a pair of muons. The measurement provides a precision test of quantum chromodynamics over a large region of phase space. In addition, due to the small experimental uncertainties in the measurement the data has the potential to constrain the gluon parton distribution function in the kinematic regime important for Higgs boson production via gluon fusion. The results agree with the next-to-next-to-leading-order predictions computed with the FEWZ program. The results are also compared to the commonly used leading-order MADGRAPH and next-to-leading-order POWHEG generators.
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© 2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Received 14 April 2015. Received in revised form 10 July 2015. Accepted 26 July 2015. Available online 29 July 2015. Editor: M. Doser. Funded by SCOAP3. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MOST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia); Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA). Individuals have received support from the Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union); the Leventis Foundation; the A.P. Sloan Foundation; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office; the Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'Industrie et dans l'Agriculture (FRIA-Belgium); the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium); the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced from European Union, Regional Development Fund; the Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino); the Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste); MIUR project 20108T4XTM (Italy); the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; and the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund.Attached Files
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- SCOAP3
- Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- MES (Bulgaria)
- CERN
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
- MSES and CSF (Croatia)
- RPF (Cyprus)
- MoER, ERC IUT and ERDF (Estonia)
- Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland)
- Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- GSRT (Greece)
- OTKA and NIH (Hungary)
- DAE and DST (India)
- IPM (Iran)
- Science Foundation, Ireland
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- MSIP and NRF (Korea)
- LAS (Lithuania)
- MOE and UM (Malaysia)
- CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
- MBIE (New Zealand)
- PAEC (Pakistan)
- MSHE and NSC (Poland)
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
- JINR (Dubna)
- MON, RosAtom, RAS, and RFBR (Russia)
- MESTD (Serbia)
- SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
- Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland)
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand)
- TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey)
- NASU and SFFR (Ukraine)
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- NSF
- Marie-Curie program and the European Research Council and EPLANET (European Union)
- Leventis Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- Fonds pour la Formation à la Recherche dans l'índustrie et dans l'Ágriculture (FRIA-Belgium)
- Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie (IWT-Belgium)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of the Czech Republic
- Council of Science and Industrial Research, India
- HOMING PLUS program of the Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund
- Compagnia di San Paolo (Torino)
- Consorzio per la Fisica (Trieste)
- 20108T4XTM
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR)
- Thalis and Aristeia programs
- Qatar National Research Fund National Priorities Research Program
- FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)
- Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
- Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
- National Science Foundation of China
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
- European Social Fund
- Greek National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF)
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