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Göran Jarlskog

Göran Jarlskog

Professor emeritus

Göran Jarlskog

Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV using the ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′+ and ZZ→ ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ decay channels with the ATLAS detector

Author

  • M Aaboud
  • G Aad
  • B. Abbott
  • J Abdallah
  • O Abdinov
  • B Abeloos
  • Torsten Åkesson
  • Simona Bocchetta
  • LENE BRYNGEMARK
  • Caterina Doglioni
  • Vincent Hedberg
  • Göran Jarlskog
  • Else Lytken
  • Ulf Mjörnmark
  • Oxana Smirnova
  • Oleksandr Viazlo

Summary, in English

A measurement of the ZZ production cross section in the ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ channels (ℓ = e, μ) in proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 is presented. The fiducial cross sections for ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ZZ→ ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ are measured in selected phase-space regions. The total cross section for ZZ events produced with both Z bosons in the mass range 66 to 116 GeV is measured from the combination of the two channels to be 7.3 ± 0.4(stat) ± 0.3(syst)− 0.1 − 0.2(lumi) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model prediction of 6. 6− 0.6 + 0.7 pb. The differential cross sections in bins of various kinematic variables are presented. The differential event yield as a function of the transverse momentum of the leading Z boson is used to set limits on anomalous neutral triple gauge boson couplings in ZZ production.[Figure not available: see fulltext.] © 2017, The Author(s).

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2017

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volume

2017

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1029-8479