Title
Measurement of electroweak production of a W boson and two forward jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV
Date Issued
01 November 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
The CMS collaboration
Khachatryan V.
Sirunyan A.M.
Tumasyan A.
Adam W.
Asilar E.
Bergauer T.
Brandstetter J.
Brondolin E.
Dragicevic M.
Erö J.
Flechl M.
Friedl M.
Frühwirth R.
Ghete V.M.
Hartl C.
Hörmann N.
Hrubec J.
Jeitler M.
Knünz V.
König A.
Krammer M.
Krätschmer I.
Liko D.
Matsushita T.
Mikulec I.
Rabady D.
Rad N.
Rahbaran B.
Rohringer H.
Schieck J.
Schöfbeck R.
Strauss J.
Treberer-Treberspurg W.
Waltenberger W.
Wulz C.E.
Mossolov V.
Shumeiko N.
Suarez Gonzalez J.
Alderweireldt S.
Cornelis T.
De Wolf E.A.
Janssen X.
Knutsson A.
Lauwers J.
Luyckx S.
Van De Klundert M.
Van Haevermaet H.
Van Mechelen P.
Van Remortel N.
Van Spilbeeck A.
Abu Zeid S.
Blekman F.
D’Hondt J.
Daci N.
De Bruyn I.
Deroover K.
Heracleous N.
Keaveney J.
Lowette S.
Moreels L.
Olbrechts A.
Python Q.
Strom D.
Tavernier S.
Van Doninck W.
Van Mulders P.
Van Onsem G.P.
Van Parijs I.
Barria P.
Brun H.
Caillol C.
Clerbaux B.
De Lentdecker G.
Fang W.
Fasanella G.
Favart L.
Goldouzian R.
Grebenyuk A.
Karapostoli G.
Lenzi T.
Léonard A.
Maerschalk T.
Marinov A.
Perniè L.
Randle-conde A.
Seva T.
Vander Velde C.
Vanlaer P.
Yonamine R.
Zenoni F.
Zhang F.
Beernaert K.
Benucci L.
Cimmino A.
Crucy S.
Dobur D.
Fagot A.
Garcia G.
Gul M.
Publisher(s)
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Abstract
A measurement is presented of the cross section for the electroweak production of a W boson in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. The data set was collected with the CMS detector and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 19.3 fb−1. The measured fiducial cross section for W bosons decaying to electrons or muons and for pTj1> 60 GeV, pTj2> 50 GeV, |ηj| < 4.7, and mjj> 1000 GeV is 0.42 ± 0.04 (stat) ± 0.09 (syst) ± 0.01 (lumi) pb. This result is consistent with the standard model leading-order prediction of 0.50 ± 0.02 (scale) ± 0.02 (PDF) pb obtained with MadGraph5_amc@nlo 2.1 interfaced to pythia 6.4. This is the first cross section measurement for this process.
Volume
2016
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física Electroquímica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85002251318
Source
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN of the container
10298479
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation - 1120138, 1151640, 1211067, 1401984, 1506130, 1506168, 1508869, 1606321. Science and Technology Facilities Council - GRIDPP, ST/K001256/1, ST/N000242/1, ST/N000250/1.
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