Measurement of electroweak production of a W boson and two forward jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2016)147

Measurement of electroweak production of a W boson and two forward jets in proton-proton collisions at √s = 8 TeV

CMS Collaboration

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Abstract

A measurement is presented of the cross section for the electroweak production of a W boson in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8TeV. The data set was collected with the CMS detector and corresponds toan integrated luminosity of 19.3 fb^-1. The measured fiducial cross section for W bosons decaying to electrons or muons and for p_T^j1 > 60 GeV, p_T^j2 > 50 GeV, |η^j| < 4.7, and m_jj > 1000 GeV is 0.42±0.04 (stat) ±0.09 (syst) ±0.01 (lumi) pb. This result is consistent with the standard model leading-order prediction of 0.50 ±0.02 (scale) ± 0.02 (PDF) pb obtained with MadGraph5_amc@nlo 2.1 interfaced to pythia 6.4. This is the first crosssection measurement for this process.

Original language	English
Article number	147
Number of pages	36
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume	2016
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2016)147
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Electroweak interaction
Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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