TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of Z → τ + τ − production in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV
AU - The LHCb Collaboration
AU - Aaij, R.
AU - Adeva, B.
AU - Adinolfi, M.
AU - Aidala, C. A.
AU - Ajaltouni, Z.
AU - Akar, S.
AU - Albicocco, P.
AU - Albrecht, J.
AU - Alessio, F.
AU - Alexander, M.
AU - Alfonso Albero, A.
AU - Ali, S.
AU - Alkhazov, G.
AU - Alvarez Cartelle, P.
AU - Alves, A. A.
AU - Amato, S.
AU - Amerio, S.
AU - Amhis, Y.
AU - An, L.
AU - Anderlini, L.
AU - Andreassi, G.
AU - Andreotti, M.
AU - Andrews, J. E.
AU - Appleby, R. B.
AU - Archilli, F.
AU - d’Argent, P.
AU - Arnau Romeu, J.
AU - Artamonov, A.
AU - Artuso, M.
AU - Arzymatov, K.
AU - Aslanides, E.
AU - Atzeni, M.
AU - Bachmann, S.
AU - Back, J. J.
AU - Baker, S.
AU - Balagura, V.
AU - Baldini, W.
AU - Baranov, A.
AU - Barlow, R. J.
AU - Barsuk, S.
AU - Barter, W.
AU - Baryshnikov, F.
AU - Batozskaya, V.
AU - Batsukh, B.
AU - Battista, V.
AU - Bay, A.
AU - Beddow, J.
AU - Mazurov, A.
AU - Petrov, A.
AU - Strokov, S.
N1 - Funding Information:
Open Access, Copyright CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3.
Funding Information:
We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW
Funding Information:
and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (U.S.A.). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland) and OSC (U.S.A.). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany), EPLANET, Marie Sklo dowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union), ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (France), Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China), RFBR, RSF and Yandex LLC (Russia), GVA, XuntaGal and GENCAT (Spain), Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom).
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - A measurement of Z → τ+τ− production cross-section is presented using data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb−1, from pp collisions at s=8 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. The τ+τ− candidates are reconstructed in final states with the first tau lepton decaying leptonically, and the second decaying either leptonically or to one or three charged hadrons. The production cross-section is measured for Z bosons with invariant mass between 60 and 120 GeV/c2, which decay to tau leptons with transverse momenta greater than 20 GeV/c and pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5. The cross-section is determined to be σpp→Z→τ+τ−=95.8±2.1±4.6±0.2±1.1 pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, the third is due to the LHC beam energy uncertainty, and the fourth to the integrated luminosity uncertainty. This result is compatible with NNLO Standard model predictions. The ratio of the cross-sections for Z → τ+τ− to Z → μ+μ− (Z → e+e−), determined to be 1.01 ± 0.05 (1.02 ± 0.06), is consistent with the lepton-universality hypothesis in Z decays.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
AB - A measurement of Z → τ+τ− production cross-section is presented using data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2 fb−1, from pp collisions at s=8 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment. The τ+τ− candidates are reconstructed in final states with the first tau lepton decaying leptonically, and the second decaying either leptonically or to one or three charged hadrons. The production cross-section is measured for Z bosons with invariant mass between 60 and 120 GeV/c2, which decay to tau leptons with transverse momenta greater than 20 GeV/c and pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5. The cross-section is determined to be σpp→Z→τ+τ−=95.8±2.1±4.6±0.2±1.1 pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, the third is due to the LHC beam energy uncertainty, and the fourth to the integrated luminosity uncertainty. This result is compatible with NNLO Standard model predictions. The ratio of the cross-sections for Z → τ+τ− to Z → μ+μ− (Z → e+e−), determined to be 1.01 ± 0.05 (1.02 ± 0.06), is consistent with the lepton-universality hypothesis in Z decays.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].
KW - Electroweak interaction
KW - Forward physics
KW - Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
KW - Lepton production
KW - Tau Physics
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP09(2018)159
DO - 10.1007/JHEP09(2018)159
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054052586
VL - 2018
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
SN - 1126-6708
IS - 9
M1 - 159
ER -