TY  - JOUR
AU  - LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, R. et al
AU  - Martinez-Vidal, F.
AU  - Oyanguren, A.
AU  - Ruiz Valls, P.
AU  - Sanchez Mayordomo, C.
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2016//
TI  - Measurement of forward W and Z boson production in pp collisions at root s=8TeV
T2  - J. High Energy Phys.
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
SP  - 155
EP  - 45pp
VL  - 01
IS  - 1
PB  - Springer
KW  - Electroweak interaction
KW  - Hadron-Hadron scattering
KW  - Forward physics
AB  - Measurements are presented of electroweak boson production using data from pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 8TeV. The analysis is based on an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb(-1) recorded with the LHCb detector. The bosons are identified in the W -> μnu and Z -> mu(+)mu(-) decay channels. The cross-sections are measured for muons in the pseudorapidity range 2.0 < eta < 4.5, with transverse momenta p(T) > 20 GeV/c and, in the case of the Z boson, a dimuon mass within 60 < M mu+mu- < 120 GeV/c(2). The results are sigma(W+) -> mu(+)nu(-) = 1093.6 +/- 2.1 +/- 7.2 +/- 10.9 +/- 12.7 pb, sigma(W-) -> mu(-)nu(-) = 818.4 +/- 1.9 +/- 5.0 +/- 7.0 +/- 9.5 pb, sigma(Z) -> mu(+)mu(-) = 95.0 +/- 0.3 +/- 0.7 +/- 1.1 +/- 1.1 pb, where the first uncertainties are statistical, the second are systematic, the third are due to the knowledge of the LHC beam energy and the fourth are due to the luminosity determination. The evolution of the W and Z boson cross-sections with centre-of-mass energy is studied using previously reported measurements with 1.0 fb(-1) of data at 7 TeV. Differential distributions are also presented. Results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics.
SN  - 1029-8479
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08039
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2016)155
DO  - 10.1007/JHEP01(2016)155
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000369410800001
ID  - LHCbCollaborationAaij_etal2016
ER  -