Measurement of the weak mixing angle using the forward–backward asymmetry of Drell–Yan events in pp collisions at 8TeV

(CMS Collaboration) Sirunyan, Albert; Đurić, Senka; Lelas, Damir; Godinović, Nikola; Puljak, Ivica; Šćulac, Toni; Mesić, Benjamin; Šuša, Tatjana; Kovač, Marko; Ferenček, Dinko; Antunović, Željko; Starodumov, Andrey; Brigljević, Vuko; Luetić, Jelena; Kadija, Krešo; Woods, Nate (2018) Measurement of the weak mixing angle using the forward–backward asymmetry of Drell–Yan events in pp collisions at 8TeV. European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 78 . ISSN 1434-6044

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Abstract

A measurement is presented of the effective leptonic weak mixing angle (sin2θℓeff) using the forward–backward asymmetry of Drell–Yan lepton pairs (μμ and e e) produced in proton–proton collisions at s√=8TeV at the CMS experiment of the LHC. The data correspond to integrated luminosities of 18.8 and 19.6fb−1 in the dimuon and dielectron channels, respectively, containing 8.2 million dimuon and 4.9 million dielectron events. With more events and new analysis techniques, including constraints obtained on the parton distribution functions from the measured forward–backward asymmetry, the statistical and systematic uncertainties are significantly reduced relative to previous CMS measurements. The extracted value of sin2θℓeff from the combined dilepton data is sin2θℓeff=0.23101±0.00036(stat)±0.00018(syst)±0.00016(theo)±0.00031(parton distributions in proton)=0.23101±0.00053.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Standard Model
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Division of Experimental Physics
Depositing User:	Vuko Brigljević
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2019 11:21
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/4968
DOI:	10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6148-7

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