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Determination of the parton distribution functions of the proton from ATLAS measurements of differential W± and Z boson production in association with jets

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inThe journal of high energy physics, vol. 07, no. 7
Publication date2021
First online date2021-07-29
Abstract

This article presents a new set of proton parton distribution functions, ATLASepWZVjet20, produced in an analysis at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The new data sets considered are the measurements of W$^{+}$ and W$^{−}$ boson and Z boson production in association with jets in pp collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 8 TeV performed by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC with integrated luminosities of 20.2 fb$^{−1}$ and 19.9 fb$^{−1}$, respectively. The analysis also considers the ATLAS measurements of differential W$^{±}$ and Z boson production at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 7 TeV with an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb$^{−1}$ and deep-inelastic-scattering data from e$^{±}$p collisions at the HERA accelerator. An improved determination of the sea-quark densities at high Bjorken x is shown, while confirming a strange-quark density similar in size to the up- and down-sea-quark densities in the range x ≲ 0.02 found by previous ATLAS analyses.

Keywords
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)
  • QCD
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Parton: distribution function
  • Z0: hadroproduction
  • W: hadroproduction
  • Jet: associated production
  • P: distribution function
  • P p: scattering
  • Perturbation theory: higher-order
  • Higher-order: 2
  • ATLAS
  • Density
  • Electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • Positron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • Quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • DESY HERA Stor
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • X-dependence
  • Bjorken
  • Experimental results
  • 7000 GeV-cms
  • 8000 GeV-cms
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Determination of the parton distribution functions of the proton from ATLAS measurements of differential W± and Z boson production in association with jets. In: The journal of high energy physics, 2021, vol. 07, n° 7. doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2021)223
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