# EPS HEP 2015

22-29 July 2015
Europe/Vienna timezone

## Precision measurements of Standard Model parameters with the ATLAS detector

Jul 23, 2015, 9:43 AM
18m
HS31

### HS31

talk Top and Electroweak Physics

### Speaker

Aleksandra Dimitrievska (Institute of Physics Belgrade (RS))

### Description

The ATLAS Collaboration is engaged in precision measurement of fundamental Standard Model parameters, e.g. the weak-mixing angle and the complete set of coefficients that describe the angular distributions of Drell-Yan production. A measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry for the neutral current Drell Yan process is presented and the results are then used to extract a measurement of the effective weak mixing angle. This measurement shows significant sensitivity to the uncertainties of the parton density functions of the proton. The angular distributions of the Drell-Yan lepton pairs around the Z-boson mass peak probe the underlying QCD dynamic of the Z-boson production mechanisms. We present a measurement of the complete set of angular coefficients describing these distributions using 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy. The measurement is compared with the theoretical predictions and shows discrimination power between different approaches of the QCD modeling.