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Measurement of W boson angular distributions in events with high transverse momentum jets at √s=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Mohamed I University
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • Université Paris-Sud
  • University of Amsterdam
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • University of Sussex
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • University of Oregon
  • Stockholm University
  • The Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • The University of Tokyo
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Belgrade
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Czech Technical University in Prague
  • University of Salento
  • The University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Naples Federico II

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Abstract

The W boson angular distribution in events with high transverse momentum jets is measured using data collected by the ATLAS experiment from proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy s=8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1. The focus is on the contributions to W+jets processes from real W emission, which is achieved by studying events where a muon is observed close to a high transverse momentum jet. At small angular separations, these contributions are expected to be large. Various theoretical models of this process are compared to the data in terms of the absolute cross-section and the angular distributions of the muon from the leptonic W decay.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)132-153
Number of pages22
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume765
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 10 2017

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