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

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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 pTj1 > 60 GeV, pTj2 > 50 GeV, |ηj| < 4.7, and mjj > 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 languageEnglish
Article number147
Number of pages36
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2016
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Electroweak interaction
  • Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)

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