Aaboud, M;
Aad, G;
Abbott, B;
Abdallah, J;
Abdinov, O;
Abeloos, B;
Aben, R;
... Antonelli, M; + view all
(2017)
Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at s√=8
TeV using the ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′+ and ZZ→ℓ−ℓ+νν¯¯¯
decay channels with the ATLAS detector.
Journal of High Energy Physics
, 2017
(1)
, Article 99. 10.1007/JHEP01(2017)099.
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Abstract
A measurement of the ZZ production cross section in the ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ℓ−ℓ+νν¯¯¯ channels (ℓ = e, μ) in proton-proton collisions at s√=8TeV at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 is presented. The fiducial cross sections for ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ZZ→ℓ−ℓ+νν¯¯¯ are measured in selected phase-space regions. The total cross section for ZZ events produced with both Z bosons in the mass range 66 to 116 GeV is measured from the combination of the two channels to be 7.3 ± 0.4(stat) ± 0.3(syst)− 0.1− 0.2(lumi) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model prediction of 6. 6− 0.6+ 0.7 pb. The differential cross sections in bins of various kinematic variables are presented. The differential event yield as a function of the transverse momentum of the leading Z boson is used to set limits on anomalous neutral triple gauge boson couplings in ZZ production.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at s√=8 TeV using the ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′+ and ZZ→ℓ−ℓ+νν¯¯¯ decay channels with the ATLAS detector |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/JHEP01(2017)099 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2017)099 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License |
| Keywords: | Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1546062 |
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