8–13 Aug 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Measurement of the differential production cross section of Z bosons at 7 TeV

9 Aug 2011, 14:40
20m
552 A (Rhode Island Convention Center)

552 A

Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Electroweak Physics Electroweak Physics

Speaker

Joseph Anthony Gartner (University of Florida)

Description

In 2010 the CMS experiment collected about 35 pb-1 of data during the first physics run of the LHC accelerator. We present the first measurements of the differential cross section as a function of boson rapidity and transverse momentum for Z bosons produced at 7 TeV and decaying to pairs of electrons and muons. The data are unfolded and corrected for efficiencies, allowing a direct comparison to recent theoretical calculations.

Primary author

Joseph Anthony Gartner (University of Florida)

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