Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of W bosons produced in proton–proton collisions at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

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Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of W bosons produced in proton–proton collisions at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS Collaboration

School of Physics and Astronomy

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This paper presents measurements of the W⁺→ μ⁺ν and W^-→ μ^-ν cross-sections and the associated charge asymmetry as a function of the absolute pseudorapidity of the decay muon. The data were collected in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and correspond to a total integrated luminosity of 20.2fb-1. The precision of the cross-section measurements varies between 0.8 and 1.5% as a function of the pseudorapidity, excluding the 1.9% uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The charge asymmetry is measured with an uncertainty between 0.002 and 0.003. The results are compared with predictions based on next-to-next-to-leading-order calculations with various parton distribution functions and have the sensitivity to discriminate between them.

Original language	English
Article number	760
Journal	European Physical Journal C
Volume	79
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7199-0
State	Published - 1 Sep 2019

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Funders	Funder number
Not added	ST/L006162/1, ST/N000307/1, ST/N000331/1, 1852475
BSF-NSF
CEA-DRF
Cantons of Bern and Geneva
Czech Republic
DNSRC	IN2P3-CNRS
EU-ESF
Horizon 2020, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
IRFU
MES of Russia
MESTD
MIZŠ
MNE
MSMT
MSSR
RGC
VSC CR
Wallenberg Foundation
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science
CERN
Glycemic Index Foundation
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
National Research Council Canada
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Science and Technology Facilities Council	ST/N000234/1
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Leverhulme Trust
Royal Society
European Research Council
European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Australian Research Council
Neurosurgical Research Foundation
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
Singapore Eye Research Institute
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Austrian Science Fund
Generalitat de Catalunya
Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft
General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel Science Foundation
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS
Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund
European Regional Development Fund
Council on grants of the President of the Russian Federation
National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
Institutul de Fizică Atomică

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Measurement of the cross-section and charge asymmetry of W bosons produced in proton–proton collisions at √s=8TeV with the ATLAS detector

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