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.

The CMS collaboration, N., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., et al. (2016). Measurement of electroweak production of a W boson and two forward jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2016(11) [10.1007/JHEP11(2016)147].

Measurement of electroweak production of a W boson and two forward jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV

BRIANZA, LUCA;DINARDO, MAURO EMANUELE;FIORENDI, SARA;GENNAI, STEFANO;GEROSA, RAFFAELE ANGELO;GHEZZI, ALESSIO;GOVONI, PIETRO;MANZONI, RICCARDO ANDREA;MARZOCCHI, BADDER;MORONI, LUIGI;PAGANONI, MARCO;RAGAZZI, STEFANO;TABARELLI DE FATIS, TOMMASO;De Guio, F;Lucchini, M;
2016

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.
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Electroweak interaction; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments); Nuclear and High Energy Physics
English
2016
2016
11
147
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The CMS collaboration, N., Khachatryan, V., Sirunyan, A., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Asilar, E., et al. (2016). Measurement of electroweak production of a W boson and two forward jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2016(11) [10.1007/JHEP11(2016)147].
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