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Measurement of the cross-sections of the electroweak and total production of a $Z \gamma$ pair in association with two jets in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 846, 138222
Publication date2023
Abstract

This Letter presents the measurement of the fiducial and differential cross-sections of the electroweak production of a $Z \gamma$ pair in association with two jets. The analysis uses 140 fb$^{-1}$ of LHC proton-proton collision data taken at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector during the years 2015-2018. Events with a $Z$ boson candidate decaying into either an $e^+e^-$ or $\mu^+ \mu^-$ pair, a photon and two jets are selected. The electroweak component is extracted by requiring a large dijet invariant mass and a large rapidity gap between the two jets and is measured with an observed and expected significance well above five standard deviations. The fiducial $pp \rightarrow Z \gamma jj$ cross-section for the electroweak production is measured to be 3.6 $\pm$ 0.5 fb. The total fiducial cross-section that also includes contributions where the jets arise from strong interactions is measured to be $16.8^{+2.0}_{-1.8}$ fb. The results are consistent with the Standard Model predictions. Differential cross-sections are also measured using the same events and are compared with parton-shower Monte Carlo simulations. Good agreement is observed between data and predictions.

Keywords
  • P p: scattering
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Vector boson: pair production
  • Dijet: associated production
  • Jet: pair production
  • Photon: associated production
  • Z0: associated production
  • Z0: leptonic decay
  • Electron: pair production
  • Muon: pair production
  • Dijet: mass spectrum
  • Rapidity: gap
  • Numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • Electroweak interaction
  • ATLAS
  • Channel cross section: measured
  • Differential cross section: measured
  • Transverse momentum dependence
  • Mass dependence
  • Rapidity dependence
  • Angular dependence
  • Strong interaction
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
  • Total cross section: measured
  • Photon: particle identification
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ATLAS Collaboration. Measurement of the cross-sections of the electroweak and total production of a $Z \gamma$ pair in association with two jets in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Physics letters. B, 2023, vol. 846, p. 138222. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2023.138222
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