22–28 Jul 2010
Palais des Congrès de Paris
Europe/Paris timezone

W/Z production at HERA

22 Jul 2010, 09:00
13m
Salle 252B

Salle 252B

Parallel Session Talk 02 - The Standard Model and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking 02 - The Standard Model and Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Speaker

Amita Raval (DESY)

Description

A search for events containing an isolated electron or muon and missing transverse momentum produced in e±p collisions is performed with the H1 and ZEUS detectors at HERA. The data were taken in the period 1994-2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 0.98 fb-1. The total single W boson production cross section is measured as 1.06 ± 0.16 (stat.) ± 0.07 (sys.) pb, in agreement with a SM expectation of 1.26 ± 0.19 pb. The production of Z0 bosons in ep collisions at HERA has been searched for and the resulting di-jet invariant mass distribution is presented for the selected event topologies.

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