A measurement of the ratio of the production cross sections for W and Z bosons in association with jets with the ATLAS detector

Aad, G. and Abbott, B. and Abdallah, J. and Abdel, Khalek S. and Abdinov, O. and Aben, R. and Abi, B. and Abolins, M. and AbouZeid, O. S. and Abramowicz, H. and Abreu, H. and Abreu, R. and Abulaiti, Y. and Acharya, B. S. and Adamczyk, L. and Adams, D. L. and Adelman, J. and Adomeit, S. and Adye, T. and Agatonovic-Jovin, T. and Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A. and Agustoni, M. and Ahlen, S. P. and Ahmadov, F. and Aielli, G. and Akerstedt, H. and Åkesson, T. P. A. and Akimoto, G. and Akimov, A. V. and Alberghi, G. L. and Krasznahorkay, Attila and Nagai, Yoshikazu and Pásztor, Gabriella and Tóth, József (2014) A measurement of the ratio of the production cross sections for W and Z bosons in association with jets with the ATLAS detector. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 74 (12). ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

The ratio of the production cross sections for W and Z bosons in association with jets has been measured in proton–proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurement is based on the entire 2011 dataset, corresponding to an integrated lumi- nosity of 4.6 fb−1. Inclusive and differential cross-section ratios for massive vector bosons decaying to electrons and muons are measured in association with jets with transverse momentum pT > 30 GeV and jet rapidity |y| < 4.4. The measurements are compared to next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations and to predictions from different Monte Carlo generators implementing leading-order ma- trix elements supplemented by parton showers.

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