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A study of the $Z$ production cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV using tau final states

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 نشر من قبل Philip Ilten
 تاريخ النشر 2012
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A measurement of the inclusive $Z to tautau$ cross-section in $pp$ collisions at $sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV is presented based on a dataset of 1.0 fb$^{-1}$ collected by the LHCb detector. Candidates for $Z to tautau$ decays are identified through reconstructed final states with two muons, a muon and an electron, a muon and a hadron, or an electron and a hadron. The production cross-section for $Z$ bosons, with invariant mass between 60 and 120 GeV/$c^2$, which decay to $tau$ leptons with transverse momenta greater than 20 GeV/$c$ and pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5, is measured to be $sigma_{pp to Z to tautau} = 71.4 pm 3.5 pm 2.8 pm 2.5$ pb; the first uncertainty is statistical, the second uncertainty is systematic, and the third is due to the uncertainty on the integrated luminosity. The ratio of the cross-sections for $Z to tautau$ to $Z to mumu$ is determined to be $0.93 pm 0.09$, where the uncertainty is the combination of statistical, systematic, and luminosity uncertainties of the two measurements.

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