Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Summary, in English

The ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy is measured using 3.2 fb-1 of data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The considered Z boson candidates decay to an electron or muon pair of mass 66-116 GeV. The cross section is measured in a fiducial phase space reflecting the detector acceptance. It is also extrapolated to a total phase space for Z bosons in the same mass range and of all decay modes, giving 16.7-2.0+2.2(stat)+0.9-0.7(syst)+1.0-0.7(lumi) pb. The results agree with standard model predictions. © 2016 CERN. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

• Author: G Aad; B. Abbott; O Abdinov; B Abeloos; R Aben; M Abolins; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Lene Bryngemark; Caterina Doglioni; Anders Floderus; Anthony Hawkins; Vincent Hedberg; Jenny Ivarsson; Göran Jarlskog; Else Lytken; Ulf Mjörnmark; Oxana Smirnova; Oleksandr Viazlo
• Department/s: Particle and nuclear physics; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2016
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 116
• Issue: 10
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.101801
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Topic: Subatomic Physics
• Keywords: Bosons; Tellurium compounds; ATLAS detectors; Center-of-mass energies; Decay mode; Large Hadron Collider; Muon pairs; Production cross section; Proton proton collisions; Standard model; Phase space methods
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1079-7114