Measurement of the transverse momentum and ϕη(*) distributions of Drell–Yan lepton pairs in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
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2016
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Atlas, C.
Aad, G.
Abbott, B.
Abdallah, J.
Abdinov, O.
Aben, R.
Abolins, M.
AbouZeid, O.S.
Abramowicz, H.
Abreu, H.
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European Physical Journal C, 2016; 76(5):291-1-291-61
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G. Aad ... P. Jackson ... L. Lee ... A. Petridis ... N. Soni ... M.J. White ... [et al.] (The ATLAS Collaboration)
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Distributions of transverse momentum pℓℓT and the related angular variable ϕ∗η of DrellΓÇôYan lepton pairs are measured in 20.3┬áfb−1 of protonΓÇôproton collisions at s√=8┬áTeV 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 protonΓÇôproton collisions at s√=7┬áTeV, 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 ϕ∗η<1 the predictions from the Monte Carlo generator ResBos are generally consistent with the data within the theoretical uncertainties. However, at larger values of ϕ∗η 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 pℓℓT while the fixed-order prediction of Dynnlo falls below the data at high values of pℓℓT. ResBos and the parton-shower Monte Carlo generators provide a much better description of the evolution of the ϕ∗η and pℓℓT distributions as a function of lepton-pair mass and rapidity than the basic shape of the data.
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© CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecomm ons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. Funded by SCOAP3.