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Simultaneous Unbinned Differential Cross-Section Measurement of Twenty-Four Z+jets Kinematic Observables with the ATLAS Detector

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Article number261803
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>30/12/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review letters
Issue number26
Volume133
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Z boson events at the Large Hadron Collider can be selected with high purity and are sensitive to a diverse range of QCD phenomena. As a result, these events are often used to probe the nature of the strong force, improve Monte Carlo event generators, and search for deviations from standard model predictions. All previous measurements of Z boson production characterize the event properties using a small number of observables and present the results as differential cross sections in predetermined bins. In this analysis, a machine learning method called is used to produce a simultaneous measurement of twenty-four Z+jets observables using 139 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector. Unlike any previous fiducial differential cross-section measurement, this result is presented unbinned as a dataset of particle-level events, allowing for flexible reuse in a variety of contexts and for new observables to be constructed from the twenty-four measured observables. © 2024 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaboration 2024 CERN