Measurements of the production cross section of a Z boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV are presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.16 fb⁻¹ collected by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2015. Inclusive and differential cross sections are measured for events containing a Z boson decaying to electrons or muons and produced in association with up to seven jets with pT>30 GeV and |y|<2.5. Predictions from different Monte Carlo generators based on leading-order and next-to-leading-order matrix elements for up to two additional partons interfaced with parton shower and fixed-order predictions at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order are compared with the measured cross sections. Good agreement within the uncertainties is observed for most of the modelled quantities, in particular with the generators which use next-to-leading-order matrix elements and the more recent next-to-next-to-leading-order fixed-order predictions.

Measurements of the production cross section of a Z boson in association with jets in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

CAVASINNI, VINCENZO;DELL'ORSO, MAURO;DONATI, SIMONE;Francavilla, P.;RODA, CHIARA MARIA ANGELA;Verducci, M.;
2017-01-01

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Measurements of the production cross section of a Z boson in association with jets in proton–proton collisions at √s=13 TeV are presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.16 fb⁻¹ collected by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2015. Inclusive and differential cross sections are measured for events containing a Z boson decaying to electrons or muons and produced in association with up to seven jets with pT>30 GeV and |y|<2.5. Predictions from different Monte Carlo generators based on leading-order and next-to-leading-order matrix elements for up to two additional partons interfaced with parton shower and fixed-order predictions at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order are compared with the measured cross sections. Good agreement within the uncertainties is observed for most of the modelled quantities, in particular with the generators which use next-to-leading-order matrix elements and the more recent next-to-next-to-leading-order fixed-order predictions.
2017
Aaboud, M.; Aad, G.; Abbott, B.; Abdallah, J.; Abdinov, O.; Abeloos, B.; Aben, R.; Abouzeid, O. S.; Abraham, N. L.; Abramowicz, H.; Abreu, H.; Abreu, ...espandi
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