Measurements of four-lepton production in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector
The four-lepton (4ℓ, ℓ=e,μ) production cross section is measured in the mass range from 80 to 1000 GeV using 20.3 fb−1 of data in pp collisions at s=8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The 4ℓ events are produced in the decays of resonant Z and Higgs bosons and the non-resonant ZZ con...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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Physics letters
Year: 2015, Volume: 753, Pages: 552-572 |
| ISSN: | 1873-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.048 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.048 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037026931500996X |
| Author Notes: | ATLAS Collaboration* |
| Summary: | The four-lepton (4ℓ, ℓ=e,μ) production cross section is measured in the mass range from 80 to 1000 GeV using 20.3 fb−1 of data in pp collisions at s=8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The 4ℓ events are produced in the decays of resonant Z and Higgs bosons and the non-resonant ZZ continuum originating from qq¯, gg, and qg initial states. A total of 476 signal candidate events are observed with a background expectation of 26.2±3.6 events, enabling the measurement of the integrated cross section and the differential cross section as a function of the invariant mass and transverse momentum of the four-lepton system. In the mass range above 180 GeV, assuming the theoretical constraint on the qq¯ production cross section calculated with perturbative NNLO QCD and NLO electroweak corrections, the signal strength of the gluon-fusion component relative to its leading-order prediction is determined to be μgg=2.4±1.0 (stat.)±0.5 (syst.)±0.8 (theory). |
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| Item Description: | Available online 18 December 2015 *ATLAS Collaboration: G. Aad, C.F. Anders, V. Andrei, A.E. Baas, O. Brandt, Y. Davygora, J.I. Djuvsland, M. Dunford, M.P. Geisler, M. Giulini, P. Hanke. J. Jongmanns, E.-E. Kluge, M. Kolb, M. Kretz, A. Kugel, V.S. Lang, M. Lisovyi, K. Meier, H. Meyer zu Theenhausen, D.I. Narrias Villar, M. Sahinsoy, S. Schaetzel, V. Scharf, S. Schmitt, A. Schoening, H.-C. Schultz-Coulon, D. Sosa, R. Stamen, P. Starovoitov, S. Suchek, M. Wessels [und 2832 weitere Personen] Im Titel steht der Buchstabe s unter dem Wurzelsymbol Gesehen am 24.06.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1873-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.048 |