Angular coefficients of Z bosons produced in pp collisions at s=8 TeV and decaying to μ+μ− as a function of transverse momentum and rapidity
Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol.750, pp.154-175, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 750
- Publication Date: 2015
- Doi Number: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.08.061
- Journal Name: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.154-175
- Keywords: CMS, Physics, Z boson production, DILEPTONS, PAIRS
- Anadolu University Affiliated: No
Abstract
© 2015 CERN for the benefit of the CMS CollaborationMeasurements of the five most significant angular coefficients, A0 through A4, for Z bosons produced in pp collisions at s=8 TeV and decaying to μ+μ− are presented as a function of the transverse momentum and rapidity of the Z boson. The integrated luminosity of the dataset collected with the CMS detector at the LHC corresponds to 19.7fb−1. These measurements provide comprehensive information about the Z boson production mechanisms, and are compared to the QCD predictions at leading order, next-to-leading order, and next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbation theory.