Measurements of differential cross sections for associated production of a W boson and jets in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV

Khachatryan, V.; Işıldak, Bora

dc.contributor.author	Khachatryan, V.
dc.contributor.author	Işıldak, Bora
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-20T12:09:10Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-20T12:09:10Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.issn	2470-0029
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10679/4947
dc.identifier.uri	https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.052002
dc.description.abstract	Differential cross sections for a W boson produced in association with jets are measured in a data sample of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 8 TeV recorded with the CMS detector and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 fb(-1). The W bosons are identified through their decay mode W ->mu nu. The cross sections are reported as functions of jet multiplicity, transverse momenta, and the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta ( H-T) for different jet multiplicities. Distributions of the angular correlations between the jets and the muon are examined, as well as the average number of jets as a function of H-T and as a function of angular variables. The measured differential cross sections are compared with tree-level and higher-order recent event generators, as well as next-to-leading-order and next-to-nextto-leading-order theoretical predictions. The agreement of the generators with the measurements builds confidence in their use for the simulation of W+ jets background processes in searches for new physics at the LHC.
dc.description.sponsorship	The Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research and the Austrian Science Fund ; the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, and Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek ; the Brazilian Funding Agencies ; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science; CERN ; the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Natural Science Foundation of China ; the Colombian Funding Agency ; the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport ; the Research Promotion Foundation, Cyprus; the Ministry of Education and Research ; and European Regional Development Fund, Estonia; the Academy of Finland, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, and Helsinki Institute of Physics; the Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules/CNRS, and Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives/CEA, France; the Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, Germany; the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Greece; the National Scientific Research Foundation, and National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary; the Department of Atomic Energy and the Department of Science and Technology, India; the Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Iran; the Science Foundation, Ireland; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the World Class University program of NRF, Republic of Korea; the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; the Mexican Funding Agencies ; the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand; the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Centre, Poland; the Fundac¸ao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; JINR, Dubna; the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency of Atomic Energy of the Russian Federation, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Serbia; the Secretaria de Estado de Investigacio´n, Desarrollo e Innovacion and Programa Consolider-Ingenio 2010, Spain; the Swiss Funding Agencies ; the National Science Council, Taipei; the Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, the Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology of Thailand, Special Task Force for Activating Research and the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand ; the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, and Turkish Atomic Energy Authority ; the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. National Science Foundation ; European Union ; the Leventis Foundation ; the A. P. Sloan Foundation ; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office ; the Fonds pour la Formation a` la Recherche dans l’Industrie et dans l’Agriculture; the Agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) of Czech Republic; the Council of Science and Industrial Research, India; the Compagnia di San Paolo; the HOMING PLUS program of Foundation for Polish Science, cofinanced by EU, Regional Development Fund ; the Mobility Plus program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the National Science Center, Contracts Harmonia No. 2014/14/M/ST2/00428, Opus No. 2013/11/B/ST2/04202, No. 2014/13/B/ST2/02543 and No. 2014/15/B/ST2/03998, Sonata-bis No. 2012/07/ E/ST2/01406; the Thalis and Aristeia programs cofinanced by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF; the National Priorities Research Program by Qatar National Research Fund; the Programa Clarín-COFUND del Principado de Asturias; the Rachadapisek Sompot Fund for Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chulalongkorn University and the Chulalongkorn Academic into Its 2nd Century Project Advancement Project; and the Welch Foundation, Contract No. C-1845.
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	APS	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Physical Review D	en_US
dc.rights	restrictedAccess
dc.title	Measurements of differential cross sections for associated production of a W boson and jets in proton-proton collisions at root s=8 TeV	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publicationstatus	published	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Özyeğin University
dc.contributor.authorID	(ORCID 0000-0002-0283-5234 & YÖK ID 124605) Işıldak, Bora
dc.contributor.ozuauthor	Işıldak, Bora
dc.creator	The CMS Collaboration
dc.identifier.wos	WOS:000396030900001
dc.identifier.doi	10.1103/PhysRevD.95.052002
dc.subject.keywords	Plus jets
dc.subject.keywords	Blackhat
dc.identifier.scopus	SCOPUS:2-s2.0-85019852259
dc.contributor.authorMale	1