A Measurement of W Boson Pair Production in Pp Collisions at Sqrt(s)

A Measurement of W Boson Pair Production in Pp Collisions at Sqrt(s)
Author: Philip Sommer
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Release: 2016
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Zusammenfassung: In this thesis, measurements of the W boson pair production cross section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV are presented. A dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 22.3 /fb recorded by the ATLAS experiment in the year 2012 is used. The W bosons are identified by their decay products of exactly two leptons with opposite electrical charge, electrons or muons, and missing transverse momentum induced by their corresponding neutrinos. First, a measurement restricted to final states without hadronic jets is presented and differential fiducial cross sections, total cross sections and limits on anomalous triple gauge boson couplings are obtained. A second measurement of the fiducial cross section in association with exactly one hadronic jet is presented. The ratio of fiducial cross sections for different jet multiplicities is reported and the combined fiducial cross section is extrapolated to the total phase space.

Measurement of the Azimuthal Angle Distribution of Leptons from W Boson Decays as a Function of the W Transverse Momentum in P Anti-p Collisions at S**1/2

Measurement of the Azimuthal Angle Distribution of Leptons from W Boson Decays as a Function of the W Transverse Momentum in P Anti-p Collisions at S**1/2
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We present the first measurement of the A2 and A3 angular coefficients of the W boson produced in proton-antiproton collisions. We study W → ev{sub e} and W → [mu][nu]{sub {mu}} candidate events produced in association with at least one jet at CDF, during Run Ia and Run Ib of the Tevatron at √s = 1.8 TeV. The corresponding integrated luminosity was 110 pb−1. The jet balances the transverse momentum of the W and introduces QCD effects in W boson production. The extraction of the angular coefficients is achieved through the direct measurement of the azimuthal angle of the charged lepton in the Collins-Soper rest-frame of the W boson. The angular coefficients are measured as a function of the transverse momentum of the W boson. The electron, muon, and combined results are in good agreement with the Standard Model prediction, up to order [alpha]{sub s}2 in QCD.

Determination of the Parton Distribution Functions of the Proton from ATLAS Measurements of Differential W[plus][minus] and Z Boson Production in Association with Jets

Determination of the Parton Distribution Functions of the Proton from ATLAS Measurements of Differential W[plus][minus] and Z Boson Production in Association with Jets
Author: [Study Group] ATLAS Collaboration CERN
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Release: 2021
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Abstract: This article presents a new set of proton parton distribution functions, ATLASepWZVjet20, produced in an analysis at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The new data sets considered are the measurements of W+ and W− boson and Z boson production in association with jets in pp collisions at s√ = 8 TeV performed by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC with integrated luminosities of 20.2 fb−1 and 19.9 fb−1, respectively. The analysis also considers the ATLAS measurements of differential W± and Z boson production at s√ = 7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb−1 and deep-inelastic-scattering data from e±p collisions at the HERA accelerator. An improved determination of the sea-quark densities at high Bjorken x is shown, while confirming a strange-quark density similar in size to the up- and down-sea-quark densities in the range x ≲ 0.02 found by previous ATLAS analyses