Title: | Measurement of the weak mixing angle with the Drell-Yan process in proton-proton collisions at the LHC |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Ero, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruhwirth, R Wood, D Pol, ME Roh, Y Olsen, J Antonelli, L Skuja, A Son, T Volpe, R Palinkas, J Marionneau, M Kim, DH Houtz, R Cittolin, S Gleyzer, SV Adams, MR Bisello, D Dallavalle, GM Meneguzzo, AT Hoepfner, K Moisenz, P Lee, J Parker, W Apanasevich, L Silva Do Amaral, SM Militaru, O Nourbakhsh, S Hopkins, W Mitselmakher, G Linn, A Schael, S Duric, S Fernandez Menendez, J Milstène, C Rogan, C Akgun, U Johnson, M Manolakos, I Olaiya, E Triantis, FA Savrin, V Menichelli, M Brom, JM Buontempo, S Boudoul, G Troendle, D Luo, W Forthomme, L Girgis, S Lu, YJ Sharma, V Kokkas, P Everaerts, P Mnich, J Pioppi, M Sakharov, A Harvey, J Vanlaer, P Markina, A Gokieli, R Gyun, D Marangelli, B Anghel, IM Kunori, S Schilling, F-P Caudron, J Rovelli, C Lynch, S Sexton-Kennedy, E Robmann, P Incandela, J Alexander, J Lebolo, LM De Favereau De Jeneret, J O'brien, C Chen, J Rogerson, S Lychkovskaya, N Cussans, D Orsini, L Simonis, HJ Chang, YW Govoni, P Vesztergombi, G Lebourgeois, M Harder, K Bhattacharya, S Albergo, S Bernardini, J Bonato, A Torre, P Boumediene, D Kailas, S Kleinwort, C Whyntie, T Berry, E Castaldi, R Friis, E Clerbaux, B Sever, R Dammann, D Hagopian, V Vlasov, E Steinbrück, G Cabrillo, IJ Barney, D Reece, W Kurca, T Dietz-Laursonn, E Khotilovich, V Chen, KF Sobron Sanudo, M Vlimant, JR Hall-Wilton, R Ling, TY Flugge, G Whitmore, J Nessi-Tedaldi, F Eerola, P Kluge, H Grunewald, M Hill, C Haas, J Kim, MS Hartmann, F Autermann, C Stone, R Snowball, M Butz, E Mäki, T Ranieri, R Kayis Topaksu, A Dahms, T Santaolalla, J Mossolov, V Quast, G Castro, A Barge, D Choi, Y Liu, H Yoo, HD Roland, G Rebane, L Metson, S Willmott, C Cirino, G Markou, C Bai, Y Widl, E Schul, N Fisher, M Moser, R Denegri, D Russ, J Wright, D Thomas, S Prado Da Silva, WL Chen, Z Shah, MA Eshaq, Y Bunkowski, K Bose, T Hartl, C Smith, K Pant, LM Laird, E Albayrak, EA Bian, JG Bartalini, P Gouzevitch, M Boccali, T Berry, D Alcaraz Maestre, J Campbell, A Rodenburg, M Vichoudis, P Barnes, VE Vorobyev, A Karjalainen, A Rudolph, M Lecoq, P Cremaldi, LM Mironov, C Malgeri, L Schmitz, SA Mans, J Vorobyev, A Benelli, G Bazterra, VE Rutherford, B Perchalla, L Flix, J Valdata, M Paganoni, M Brownson, E Polatoz, A Bellan, R Cerizza, G Khan, A Stahl, A Paramesvaran, S Maroussov, V Bodin, D Agostino, L Martinez Ruiz Del Arbol, P Deiters, K Edelmaier, CJ Kim, JY Bolton, T Betts, RR Nicolaou, C Chang, YH Jiang, CH Long, OR Schum, T Monaco, V Wang, M Behrenhoff, W Palencia Cortezon, E Mucibello, L Perries, S Li, SW Razis, PA Erdmann, M Spiridonov, A Steggemann, J Jun, SY Mikulec, I Nowack, A Hollingsworth, M Grizzard, K Dietz, C Lee, YJ O'Dell, V Vutova, M Bhatti, A Heinrich, M Granier de Cassagnac, R Martin, W Epshteyn, V Gaultney, V Würthwein, F Ozok, F Spanier, S Rossini, M Siroli, G Fanfani, A Zotto, P Krychkine, V Kodolova, O Ptochos, F Merschmeyer, M Mignerey, AC 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Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review D, 84(11): 112002, Dec 2011 |
Abstract: | A multivariate likelihood method to measure electroweak couplings with the Drell-Yan process at the LHC is presented. The process is described by the dilepton rapidity, invariant mass, and decay angle distributions. The decay angle ambiguity due to the unknown assignment of the scattered constituent quark and antiquark to the two protons in a collision is resolved statistically using correlations between the observables. The method is applied to a sample of dimuon events from proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.1 inverse femtobarns. From the dominant u-ubar, d-dbar to gamma*/Z to opposite sign dimuons process, the effective weak mixing angle parameter is measured to be sin^2(theta[eff]) = 0.2287 +/- 0.0020 (stat.) +/- 0.0025 (syst.). This result is consistent with measurements from other processes, as expected within the standard model. |
Description: | This is the Pre-Print version of the Article - Copyright @ 2011 APS |
URI: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2682 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6178 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1103/PhysRevD.84.112002 |
ISSN: | 1550-7998 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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