2014/05/31 by M. Schott, Matthias Schott, M. Dunford +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Collider #Context (archaeology) #Electroweak interaction #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Luminosity #Nuclear physics #Observable #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Production (economics) #Quantum mechanics #Standard Model (mathematical formulation) #Vector boson #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-2916-1
published as Eur. Phys. J. C (2014) 74:2916 · 60 pages, 64 figures, For Eur. Phys. J. C
arxiv created 2014/06/18 · openalex publication_date 2014/07/01 · arxiv updated 2014/07/24 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
This review summarises the main results on the production of single vector bosons in the Standard Model, both inclusively and in association with light- and heavy-flavour jets, at the Large Hadron Collider in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 \mathrm TeV . The general purpose detectors at this collider, ATLAS and CMS, each recorded an integrated luminosity of ≈ 40 \mathrmpb-1 and 5 \mathrmfb-1 in the years 2010 and 2011, respectively. The corresponding data offer the unique possibility to precisely study the properties of the production of heavy vector bosons in a new energy regime. The accurate understanding of the Standard Model is not only crucial for searches of unknown particles and phenomena but also to test predictions of perturbative Quantum-Chromodynamics calculations and for precision measurements of observables in the electroweak sector. Results from a variety of measurements in which single W or Z bosons are identified are reviewed. Special emphasis in this review is given to interpretations of the experimental results in the context of state-of-the-art predictions.