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

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysical review letters, vol. 133, no. 26
Publication date2024
First online date2024-12-30
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 omnifold is used to produce a simultaneous measurement of twenty-four Z+jets observables using 139  fb^{-1} of proton-proton collisions at sqrt[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.

Keywords
  • P p: scattering
  • P p: colliding beams
  • Z0: hadroproduction
  • Jet: associated production
  • Differential cross section: measured
  • Numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
  • ATLAS
  • Machine learning
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Kinematics
  • Strong coupling
  • Quantum chromodynamics
  • Neural network
  • Statistical analysis
  • Data analysis method
  • Experimental results
  • 13000 GeV-cms
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ATLAS Collaboration. Simultaneous Unbinned Differential Cross-Section Measurement of Twenty-Four Z+jets Kinematic Observables with the ATLAS Detector. In: Physical review letters, 2024, vol. 133, n° 26. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.261803
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