%0 Journal Article
%T Measurement of angular correlations in Drell-Yan lepton pairs to probe Z/gamma* boson transverse momentum at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Fassi, F.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Hernandez Jimenez, Y.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Irles Quiles, A.
%A Kaci, M.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lacuesta, V. R.
%A March, L.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Miñano, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Moles-Valls, R.
%A Moreno Llacer, M.
%A Oliver Garcia, E.
%A Pedraza Lopez, S.
%A Perez Garcia-Estañ, M. T.
%A Romero Adam, E.
%A Ros, E.
%A Salt, J.
%A Sanchez Martinez, V.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Torro Pastor, E.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valladolid Gallego, E.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Villaplana Perez, M.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physics Letters B
%D 2013
%V 720
%N 1-3
%I Elsevier Science Bv
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2013
%O WOS:000316513500004
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=1389), last updated on Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:44:24 +0000
%X A measurement of angular correlations in Drell-Yan lepton pairs via the phi(eta)* observable is presented. This variable probes the same physics as the Z/gamma* boson transverse momentum with a better experimental resolution. The Z/gamma* -> e(+)e(-) and Z/gamma* -> mu(+)mu(-) decays produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV are used. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb(-1). Normalised differential cross sections as a function of phi(eta)* are measured separately for electron and muon decay channels. These channels are then combined for improved accuracy. The cross section is also measured double differentially as a function of phi(eta)* for three independent bins of the Z boson rapidity. The results are compared to QCD calculations and to predictions from different Monte Carlo event generators. The data are reasonably well described, in all measured Z boson rapidity regions, by resummed QCD predictions combined with fixed-order perturbative QCD calculations or by some Monte Carlo event generators. The measurement precision is typically better by one order of magnitude than present theoretical uncertainties.
%K Z boson
%K Differential cross section
%K Perturbative QCD
%K Event generators
%K Monte Carlo models
%R 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.054
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1211.6899
%U https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.054
%P 32-51