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TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry of electron and muon pair-production in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Allison, Lee
AU - Barton, Adam
AU - Borissov, Guennadi
AU - Bouhova-Thacker, Evelina Vassileva
AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre
AU - Dearnaley, William
AU - Fox, Harald
AU - Grimm, Kathryn Ann Tschann
AU - Henderson, Robert Charles William
AU - Hughes, Gareth
AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis
AU - Kartvelishvili, Vakhtang
AU - Long, Robin Eamonn
AU - Love, Peter Allan
AU - Maddocks, Harvey
AU - Smizanska, Maria
AU - Walder, James William
AU - The ATLAS collaboration
PY - 2015/9/9
Y1 - 2015/9/9
N2 - This paper presents measurements from the ATLAS experiment of the forward-backward asymmetry in the reaction pp → Z/γ * → l + l −, with l being electrons or muons, and the extraction of the effective weak mixing angle. The results are based on the full set of data collected in 2011 in pp collisions at the LHC at s√=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb−1. The measured asymmetry values are found to be in agreement with the corresponding Standard Model predictions. The combination of the muon and electron channels yields a value of the effective weak mixing angle of sin2 θ eff lept = 0.2308 ± 0.0005(stat.) ± 0.0006(syst.) ± 0.0009(PDF), where the first uncertainty corresponds to data statistics, the second to systematic effects and the third to knowledge of the parton density functions. This result agrees with the current world average from the Particle Data Group fit.
AB - This paper presents measurements from the ATLAS experiment of the forward-backward asymmetry in the reaction pp → Z/γ * → l + l −, with l being electrons or muons, and the extraction of the effective weak mixing angle. The results are based on the full set of data collected in 2011 in pp collisions at the LHC at s√=7 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 4.8 fb−1. The measured asymmetry values are found to be in agreement with the corresponding Standard Model predictions. The combination of the muon and electron channels yields a value of the effective weak mixing angle of sin2 θ eff lept = 0.2308 ± 0.0005(stat.) ± 0.0006(syst.) ± 0.0009(PDF), where the first uncertainty corresponds to data statistics, the second to systematic effects and the third to knowledge of the parton density functions. This result agrees with the current world average from the Particle Data Group fit.
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)049
DO - 10.1007/JHEP09(2015)049
M3 - Journal article
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1029-8479
IS - 9
M1 - 049
ER -