%0 Journal Article
%T Measurement of forward Z -> e(+)e(-) production at root s=8 TeV
%A LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, R. et al
%A Martinez-Vidal, F.
%A Oyanguren, A.
%A Ruiz Valls, P.
%A Sanchez Mayordomo, C.
%J Journal of High Energy Physics
%D 2015
%V 05
%N 5
%I Springer
%@ 1029-8479
%G English
%F LHCbCollaborationAaij_etal2015
%O WOS:000354977800001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=2236), last updated on Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:10:59 +0000
%X A measurement of the cross-section for Z-boson production in the forward region of pp collisions at 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy is presented. The measurement is based on a sample of Z -> e(+)e(-) decays reconstructed using the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb(-1). The acceptance is defined by the requirements 2.0 < eta < 4.5 and p(T) > 20 GeV for the pseudorapidities and transverse momenta of the leptons. Their invariant mass is required to lie in the range 60-120 GeV. The cross-section is determined to be sigma(pp -> Z -> e(+)e(-)) = 93.81 +/- 0.41(stat) +/- 1.48(syst) +/- 1.14(lumi) pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second reflects all systematic effects apart from that arising from the luminosity, which is given as the third uncertainty. Differential cross-sections are presented as functions of the Z-boson rapidity and of the angular variable phi*, which is related to the Z-boson transverse momentum.
%K Electroweak interaction
%K QCD
%K Forward physics
%K Hadron-Hadron Scattering
%K proton-proton scattering
%R 10.1007/JHEP05(2015)109
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.00963
%U https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2015)109
%P 109-21pp