Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
- NázevTitle
- Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detectorMeasurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
- Druh výsledkuResult type
- Článek v časopiseJournal article
- AutořiAuthors
- G. Aad, T. Abajyan, B. Abbott, S.A. Khalek, O. Abdinov, K. Augsten, P. Gallus, J. Günther, J. Jakůbek, Z. Kohout, V. Král, S. Pospíšil, F. Seifert, V. Šimák, T. Slavíček, K. Smolek, J. Sodomka, M. Solar, J. Šolc, B. Sopko, V. Sopko, I. Štekl, D. Tureček, M. Vlasák, P. Vokáč, Z. Vykydal, M. Suk
- DOIDOI
- 10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068
- Časopis / citaceJournal / citation
- JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. 2014,(5), 1-67. ISSN 1029-8479.
- RokYear
- 2014
- JazykLanguage
- eng
- WoSWoS
- 000336799600001
- ScopusScopus
- 2-s2.0-84928942739
- RIVRIV
- RIV/68407700:21110/14:00225785!RIV15-MSM-21110___
- ProjektProject
- Mezinárodní experiment ATLAS-CERNInternational Experiment ATLAS-CERN; Mezinárodní experiment ATLAS-CERNInternational experiment ATLAS-CERN; Podpora zkvalitnění týmů výzkumu a vývoje a rozvoj intersektorální mobility na ČVUT v PrazeSupport of inter-sectoral mobility and quality enhancement of research teams at Czech Technical University in Prague
AbstraktAbstract
The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96(-0.30)(+0.26) at Q (2) = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio sigma(W (+) +)/sigma(W (-) + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s-(s) over bar quark asymmetry.
The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96(-0.30)(+0.26) at Q (2) = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio sigma(W (+) +)/sigma(W (-) + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s-(s) over bar quark asymmetry.