A QCD analysis is reported of ATLAS data on inclusive W± and Z boson production in pp collisions at the LHC, jointly with ep deep-inelastic scattering data from HERA. The ATLAS data exhibit sensitivity to the light quark sea composition and magnitude at Bjorken x∼0.01. Specifically, the data support the hypothesis of a symmetric composition of the light quark sea at low x. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea quark distributions is determined to be 1.00-0.28+0.25 at absolute four-momentum transfer squared Q2=1.9 GeV2 and x=0.023.
Determination of the strange-quark density of the proton from ATLAS measurements of the W→lν and Z→l cross sections / Aad, G.; Aloisio, Alberto; Alviggi, Mariagrazia; Canale, Vincenzo; Cevenini, Francesco; Chiefari, Giovanni; DELLA VOLPE, Domenico; Merola, Leonardo; Patricelli, Sergio; Conventi, Francesco; DELLA PIETRA, Massimo; Giordano, Raffaele; Musto, Elisa; Rossi, Elvira; SANCHEZ PINEDA, ARTURO RODOLFO; Carlino, Gianpaolo; de Asmundis, Riccardo; Di Donato, Camilla; Doria, Alessandra; Iengo, Paolo; Izzo, Vincenzo; Sekhniaidze, Givi; Al, e. t. .. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 109:(2012), pp. 1-17. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.012001]
Determination of the strange-quark density of the proton from ATLAS measurements of the W→lν and Z→l cross sections
ALOISIO, ALBERTO;ALVIGGI, MARIAGRAZIA;CANALE, VINCENZO;CHIEFARI, GIOVANNI;DELLA VOLPE, DOMENICO;MEROLA, LEONARDO;PATRICELLI, SERGIO;DELLA PIETRA, MASSIMO;GIORDANO, RAFFAELE;Rossi, Elvira;SANCHEZ PINEDA, ARTURO RODOLFO;
2012
Abstract
A QCD analysis is reported of ATLAS data on inclusive W± and Z boson production in pp collisions at the LHC, jointly with ep deep-inelastic scattering data from HERA. The ATLAS data exhibit sensitivity to the light quark sea composition and magnitude at Bjorken x∼0.01. Specifically, the data support the hypothesis of a symmetric composition of the light quark sea at low x. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea quark distributions is determined to be 1.00-0.28+0.25 at absolute four-momentum transfer squared Q2=1.9 GeV2 and x=0.023.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.