Measurement of the normalized Z/γ∗→μ+μ− transverse momentum distribution in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

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Measurement of the normalized Z/γ∗→μ+μ− transverse momentum distribution in pp¯ collisions at s=1.96 TeV

M. Jaffré Joseph Haley Raimund Ströhmer V. Simak Sabine Lammers P. Svoisky G. C. Blazey M. A. Carrasco-lizarraga Alexander Kupco A. Evdokimov M. Buehler Mitchell Wayne Robert Hirosky P. Renkel Y. W. Liu R. Yamada Jean-francois Grivaz I. Katsanos D. Onoprienko Philip Baringer Mark Richard James Williams H. Schellman J. M. Kohli G. Otero Y Garzon Stefan Grünendahl G. Gutierrez Gilvan Alves T. Nunnemann B. Baldin P. Jonsson N. Parua D. Vilanova Randy Ruchti J. Piper Sharon Hagopian A. K.a. Maciel Sung Keun Park B. Tuchming Thomas Hebbeker M. Kirsch D. Smirnov J. Snow K. Peters Frederic Deliot Christopher George Tully P. N. Ratoff Y. Peters Mary Beth Adams P. M. Tuts Maksym Titov Hua-lei Yin M. Abolins S. Banerjee S. Schlobohm B. Sanghi Andrew White H. Greenlee P. Lebrun P. Lebrun Aaron Dominguez D. M. Strom B. Tiller S. Cihangir Fabrice Couderc A. Bross R. Piegaia Andre Sopczak N. Osman Patrick Slattery John Hobbs V. M. Abazov V. Shary N. K. Mondal Maria Elena Pol Liang Li Elizaveta Shabalina D. Boline H. T. Diehl T. A. Bolton Serban Protopopescu Ketino Kaadze Jun Guo Q. Z. Li G. Sajot Markus Wobisch Y. Hu J. Barreto M. S. Rangel T. Schliephake Victor Daniel Elvira P. Verdier P. Verdier Pushpalatha C Bhat D. A. Stoyanova J. A. Parsons J. Osta M. Aoki Andy Haas X. B. Bu A. Dubey A. Boehnlein D. Menezes W. C. Yang Oleg Brandt S. Greder C. L. Mcgivern Lev Dudko Wade Cameron Fisher J. Martínez-ortega Bjoern Penning L. S. Vertogradov Maxim Perfilov Iain Alexander Bertram J. Ellison C. Belanger-champagne K. Devaughan G. Weber H. Nilsen Sa. Jain Suneel Dutt S. Fuess D. Edmunds D. Chakraborty Sarah Catherine Eno Horst Severini Harald Fox Pedro G Mercadante Michael Rijssenbeek S. Zelitch D. Khatidze Hwi Dong Yoo Zdenek Hubacek V. A. Kuzmin Michael Begel T. Kurca T. Kurca A. Alton Meng Wang Hakjae Lee Zhanqiang Liu Zhanqiang Liu M. Cooke Y. Arnoud Dorothee Schaile Marc Weber Eduardo De Moraes Gregores Junjie Zhu I. Ripp-baudot A. Meyer Don Lincoln Erich Varnes A. S. Santos L. S. Ancu Maiko Takahashi G. Savage W. Geist I. A. Vasilyev Vipin Bhatnagar L. Bellantoni Sergio F Novaes Richard B. Lipton R. Bernhard D. Karmanov M. Hohlfeld Wendy Taylor Wendy Taylor V. N. Evdokimov W. E. Cooper V. Bunichev F. Badaud Kristian Harder R. Partridge Y. N. Kharzheev S. J. De Jong M. Rominsky B. Hoeneisen Lee Sawyer Kenneth Bloom M. Vesterinen P. D. Grannis V. L. Malyshev D. Cutts Jean-arcady Meyer L. Bagby D. N. Brown Yuri Gershtein B. Spurlock A. F. Barfuss V. A. Bezzubov M. P. Sanders Yurii Maravin T. Dorland Zeno Dixon Greenwood Sudhir Malik Ia Iashvili Vladimir Gavrilov R. Madar Brajesh C Choudhary Arnaud Duperrin V. V. Tokmenin J. P. Negret Gordon Watts Greg Landsberg K. Herner K. M. Chan R. Illingworth B. C.k. Casey Nikos Varelas Bing Zhou P. Skubic B. S. Acharya Jong-sung Yu V. Sirotenko S. Uvarov T. H. Burnett R. Magaña-villalba S. W. Cho G. Obrant M. Merkin Gianluca Petrillo R. Luna-garcia Michael Hildreth Darren Price E. Camacho-pérez Reinhard Schwienhorst J. Sekaric Michael A. Strauss P. Polozov J. A. Benitez E. E. Boos S. Uzunyan J. Clutter Md. Naimuddin Ulrich Heintz Heriberto Castilla-valdez Chong-yu Xu Shabnam Jabeen G. Facini H. A. Neal J. T. Linnemann K. Yip R. Unalan L. Stutte B. Quinn A. Sanchez-hernandez C. Schwanenberger Alice Bean Christophe Royon G. S. Muanza E. Carrera M. Demarteau H. D. Wahl A. Das M. Sosebee Amnon Harel A.s. Dyshkant Jiri Kvita D. Gerbaudo Stephen Wimpenny J. Backusmayes Martin Grunewald Marvin Johnson A. L. Lyon Phillip Gutierrez J. M. Hauptman Cecilia Elena Gerber P. Neustroev Frank Filthaut M. Diesburg M. Arov Raymond Brock Z. Ye Volker Buescher J. K. Lim A. V. Kozelov B. ÅSman G. Grenier G. Grenier A. P. Heinson Peter Love Milos Lokajicek F. Guo G. Ginther G. Ginther Jianming Qian W. Geng W. Geng T. Gadfort J. Joshi P. Rich T. Scanlon Guo-ming Chen S. Kermiche Andrew Askew R. Beuselinck Arnulf Quadt Alexander Grohsjean Darien Wood M. A. Pleier M. M. Meijer Suman Bala Beri V. Hynek Daniel Duggan Elemer Nagy A. Tanasijczuk N. Khalatyan S. Yacoob C. P. Buszello T. Yasuda Lev Uvarov S. Desai Petr Vokac Yuehong Xie S. Blessing Scott Snyder A. Jonckheere George Alverson D. Wicke A. A. Shchukin D. Hedin A. Juste Dennis Stephen Mackin A. Lobodenko R. K. Shivpuri Todd Adams Frank Fiedler M. C. Cousinou D. R. Claes Gavin Davies Philippe Calfayan B. Calpas E. Kajfasz Daria Zieminska S. M. Lietti Y. Scheglov W. M. Van Leeuwen Kaushik De R. D. Schamberger David T. Johnston Jan Stark Henry Lubatti J. Cammin T. R. Wyatt H. E. Fisk E. Strauss G. Hesketh S. Hossain Marc Besancon N. Huske E. De La Cruz-burelo P. Vint Aran Garcia-bellido A. V. Popov G. D. Alexeev Flera Rizatdinova Andrew Brandt L. Zivkovic Kirti Ranjan Carsten Hensel Gustaaf Brooijmans Marco Verzocchi Theodoros Christoudias J. Warchol A. Patwa Mark Owen Marcia Begalli Y. A. Yatsunenko Meenakshi Narain U. Bassler S. Beale S. Beale Regina Demina Samuel Calvet T. Moulik M. Padilla Viatcheslav Stolin Yuji Enari D. Jamin Grigory Safronov S. Chakrabarti P. Rubinov Alexey Ferapontov R. Jesik K. A. Johns Carlos Avila M. Wetstein Suyong Choi K. Soustruznik G. Golovanov Gregorio Bernardi D. Denisov D. Buchholz Anna Goussiou Gregory R Snow Hal Evans M. Pangilinan Thomas Ferbel Thomas Ferbel M. Prewitt Lars Sonnenschein Dmitri Tsybychev R. L. Mccarthy W. M. Lee S. Söldner-rembold Graham Wilson D. Gillberg D. Gillberg R. Van Kooten A. S. Ito A. Melnitchouk V. V. Lipaev J. Lellouch M. D. Corcoran Guennadi Borissov L. Han I. Heredia-de La Cruz Neeti Parashar I. Razumov M. Zielinski J. Hays P. Haefner Tiefu Zhao S. W. Youn J. K. Kraus P. L.m. Podesta-lerma Brad Abbott Pierre Petroff V. Parihar Avto Kharchilava T. Hoang Alexander Khanov Sergey Burdin M. Eads S. P. Denisov O. Atramentov Michael Mulhearn V. M. Podstavkov D. K. Cho S. Chevalier-théry M. Fortner A. Chandra J. F. Bartlett R. Nayyar Robert Kehoe A. Croc Ph Gris M. H. Kirby G. Alkhazov D. V. Bandurin M. ĆWiok P. A. Kasper Emanuela Barberis Ashok Kumar Tulika Bose J. Orduna

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Quantum chromodynamics Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics Range (particle radiation)Particle physics Large Hadron Collider Luminosity (scattering theory)010308 nuclear & particles physics Hadron Perturbative QCD 01 natural sciences Nuclear physics Momentum Transverse plane 0103 physical sciences High Energy Physics::Experiment Nuclear Experiment 010306 general physics

description

We present a new measurement of the Z/gamma* transverse momentum distribution in the range 0-330 GeV, in proton-antiproton collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV. The measurement uses 0.97 fb(-1) of integrated luminosity recorded by the D0 experiment and is the first using the Z/gamma* -> mu(+)mu(-) + X channel at this center-of-mass energy. This is also the first measurement of the Z/gamma* transverse momentum distribution that presents the result at the level of particles entering the detector, minimizing dependence on theoretical models. As any momentum of the Z/gamma* in the plane transverse to the incoming beams must be balanced by some recoiling system, primarily the result of QCD radiation in the initial state, this variable is an excellent probe of the underlying process. Tests of the predictions of QCD calculations and current event generators show they have varied success in describing the data. Using this measurement as an input to theoretical predictions will allow for a better description of hadron collider data and hence it will increase experimental sensitivity to rare signals. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2010-10-01	Physics Letters B

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2010.09.012