Differential cross-section measurements for the electroweak production of dijets in association with a <i>Z</i> boson in proton-proton collisions at ATLAS



Aaboud, M, Aad, G, Abbott, B, Abdinov, O, Abeloos, B, Abhayasinghe, DK, Abidi, SH, AbouZeid, OS, Abraham, NL, Abramowicz, H
et al (show 2917 more authors) (2021) Differential cross-section measurements for the electroweak production of dijets in association with a <i>Z</i> boson in proton-proton collisions at ATLAS. EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C, 81 (2). 163-.

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Abstract

Differential cross-section measurements are presented for the electroweak production of two jets in association with a $Z$ boson. These measurements are sensitive to the vector-boson fusion production mechanism and provide a fundamental test of the gauge structure of the Standard Model. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by ATLAS at $\sqrt{s}$=13 TeV and with an integrated luminosity of 139 fb$^{-1}$. The differential cross-sections are measured in the $Z\rightarrow \ell^+\ell^-$ decay channel ($\ell=e,\mu$) as a function of four observables: the dijet invariant mass, the rapidity interval spanned by the two jets, the signed azimuthal angle between the two jets, and the transverse momentum of the dilepton pair. The data are corrected for the effects of detector inefficiency and resolution and are sufficiently precise to distinguish between different state-of-the-art theoretical predictions calculated using Powheg+Pythia8, Herwig7+Vbfnlo and Sherpa 2.2. The differential cross-sections are used to search for anomalous weak-boson self-interactions using a dimension-six effective field theory. The differential cross-section as a function of the signed azimuthal angle between the two jets is found to be particularly sensitive to the interference between the Standard Model and dimension-six scattering amplitudes and provides a direct test of charge-conjugation and parity invariance in the weak-boson self-interactions.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: 55 pages in total, author list starting page 39, 12 figures, 8 tables, published in EPJ C 81 (2021) 163. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at http://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-27
Uncontrolled Keywords: hep-ex, hep-ex
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 08 Mar 2021 09:48
Last Modified: 16 Oct 2023 18:01
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08734-w
Open Access URL: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-08734-w
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3116746