TY - JOUR AU - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al AU - Alvarez Piqueras, D. AU - Cabrera Urban, S. AU - Castillo Gimenez, V. AU - Cerda Alberich, L. AU - Costa, M. J. AU - Fernandez Martinez, P. AU - Ferrer, A. AU - Fiorini, L. AU - Fuster, J. AU - Garcia, C. AU - Garcia Navarro, J. E. AU - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S. AU - Hernandez Jimenez, Y. AU - Higon-Rodriguez, E. AU - Irles Quiles, A. AU - Jimenez Pena, J. AU - Kaci, M. AU - King, M. AU - Lacasta, C. AU - Lacuesta, V. R. AU - Marti-Garcia, S. AU - Mitsou, V. A. AU - Pedraza Lopez, S. AU - Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T. AU - Romero Adam, E. AU - Ros, E. AU - Salt, J. AU - Sanchez Martinez, V. AU - Soldevila, U. AU - Sanchez, J. AU - Valero, A. AU - Valls Ferrer, J. A. AU - Vos, M. PY - 2016 DA - 2016// TI - Measurement of the transverse momentum and phi(eta)*. distributions of Drell-Yan lepton pairs in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector T2 - Eur. Phys. J. C JO - European Physical Journal C SP - 291 EP - 61pp VL - 76 IS - 5 PB - Springer AB - Distributions of transverse momentum p(T)(ll) and the related angular variable phi(eta)*. of Drell-Yan lepton pairs are measured in 20.3 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Measurements in electron-pair and muon-pair final states are corrected for detector effects and combined. Compared to previous measurements in proton-proton collisions at root s = 7 TeV, these new measurements benefit from a larger data sample and improved control of systematic uncertainties. Measurements are performed in bins of lepton-pair mass above, around and below the Z-boson mass peak. The data are compared to predictions from perturbative and resummed QCD calculations. For values of phi(eta)*. < 1 the predictions from the Monte Carlo generator ResBos are generally consistent with the data within the theoretical uncertainties. However, at larger values of phi(eta)*. this is not the case. Monte Carlo generators based on the parton-shower approach are unable to describe the data over the full range of p(T)(ll) while the fixed-order prediction of Dynnlo falls below the data at high values of p(T)(ll). ResBos and the parton-shower Monte Carlo generators provide a much better description of the evolution of the phi(eta)*. and p(T)(ll) distributions as a function of lepton-pair mass and rapidity than the basic shape of the data. SN - 1434-6044 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02192 UR - https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4070-4 DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4070-4 LA - English N1 - WOS:000376679200002 ID - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2016 ER -