TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo, F. L.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Cerda Alberich, L.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Estrada Pastor, O.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fullana Torregrosa, E.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Gonzalvo Rodriguez, G. R.
AU  - Guerrero Rojas, J. G. R.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
AU  - Madaffari, D.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Miñano M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Moreno Llacer, M.
AU  - Rodriguez Bosca, S.
AU  - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Santra, A.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charmed hadron in pp collisions at root s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector 
T2  - Phys. Rev. D
JO  - Physical Review D
SP  - 032012
EP  - 54pp
VL  - 108
IS  - 3
PB  - Amer Physical Soc
AB  - The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 140 fb(-1) of vS = 13 TeV proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. ffiffis The charm quark is tagged by the presence of a charmed hadron reconstructed with a secondary-vertex fit. The W boson is reconstructed from the decay to either an electron or a muon and the missing transverse momentum present in the event. The charmed mesons reconstructed are D+ ?K-p+p+ and D*+ ? D0p+ ? (K-p+)p+ and the charge conjugate decays in the fiducial regions where pT(e; mu) > 30 GeV, l?(e; mu)l < 2.5, pT(D(*)) > 8 GeV, and l?(D(*))l < 2.2. The integrated and normalized differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W boson decay, and of the transverse momentum of the charmed hadron, are extracted from the data using a profile likelihood fit. The measured total fiducial cross sections are sfidOS-SS(W- + D+) = 50.2 + 0.2(stat)+2.4 -2.3(syst) pb, s(OS-SS) (fid)(W- + D+) = 48.5 + 0.2(stat)+2.3-2.2(syst) pb, sfidOS-SS(W- + D*+) = 51.1 + 0.4(stat)+1.9 -1.8 (syst) pb, and s(OS-SS) (fid)(W+ + D*-) = 50.0 + 0.4(stat)+1.9 -1.8 (syst) pb. Results are compared with the predictions of next-to-leading-order quantum chromodynamics calculations performed using state-of-the-art parton distribution functions. Additionally, the ratio of charm to anticharm production cross sections is studied to probe the s -s- quark asymmetry. The ratio is found to be R+ c = 0.971 + 0.006(stat) + 0.011(syst). The ratio and cross-section measurements are consistent with the predictions obtained with parton distribution function sets that have a symmetric s -s- sea, indicating that any s -s- asymmetry in the Bjorken-x region relevant for this measurement is small.
SN  - 2470-0010
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00336
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.032012
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.032012
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:001069542700001
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2023
ER  -