@misc{10481/96989,
year = {2024},
month = {3},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/96989},
abstract = {This paper presents for the first time a precise
measurement of the production properties of the Z boson in
the full phase space of the decay leptons. This is in contrast
to the many previous precise unfolded measurements performed
in the fiducial phase space of the decay leptons. The
measurement is obtained from proton–proton collision data
collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 at
√
s = 8 TeV
at the LHC and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of
20.2 fb−1. The results, based on a total of 15.3 million Zboson
decays to electron and muon pairs, extend and improve
a previous measurement of the full set of angular coefficients
describing Z-boson decay. The double-differential crosssection
distributions in Z-boson transverse momentum pT
and rapidity y are measured in the pole region, defined as
80 < m   < 100 GeV, over the range |y| < 3.6. The total
uncertainty of the normalised cross-section measurements in
the peak region of the pT distribution is dominated by statistical
uncertainties over the full range and increases as a
function of rapidity from 0.5–1.0% for |y| < 2.0 to 2 − 7%
at higher rapidities. The results for the rapidity-dependent
transverse momentum distributions are compared to stateof-
the-art QCD predictions, which combine in the best cases
approximateN4LL resummationwithN3LO fixed-order perturbative
calculations. The differential rapidity distributions
integrated over pT are even more precise, with accuracies
from 0.2–0.3% for |y| < 2.0 to 0.4–0.9% at higher rapidities,
and are compared to fixed-order QCD predictions using
the most recent parton distribution functions. The agreement
between data and predictions is quite good in most cases.},
organization = {CERN for the very successful operation
of the LHC},
organization = {ANPCyT, Argentina},
organization = {YerPhI, Armenia},
organization = {ARC, Australia},
organization = {BMWFW and FWF, Austria},
organization = {ANAS, Azerbaijan},
organization = {CNPq and
FAPESP, Brazil},
organization = {NSERC, NRC and CFI, Canada},
organization = {ANID, Chile},
organization = {CAS, MOST and NSFC, China},
organization = {Minciencias, Colombia},
organization = {MEYS CR,
Czech Republic},
organization = {DNRF and DNSRC, Denmark},
organization = {IN2P3-CNRS and
CEA-DRF/IRFU, France},
organization = {SRNSFG, Georgia},
organization = {BMBF, HGF and MPG,
Germany},
organization = {GSRI, Greece},
organization = {RGC and Hong Kong SAR, China},
organization = {ISF and
Benoziyo Center, Israel},
organization = {INFN, Italy},
organization = {MEXT and JSPS, Japan},
organization = {CNRST,
Morocco},
organization = {NWO,Netherlands},
organization = {RCN,Norway},
organization = {MEiN, Poland},
organization = {FCT, Portugal},
organization = {MNE/IFA, Romania},
organization = {MESTD, Serbia},
organization = {MSSR, Slovakia},
organization = {ARRS
and MIZŠ, Slovenia},
organization = {DSI/NRF, South Africa},
organization = {MICINN, Spain},
organization = {SRC
and Wallenberg Foundation, Sweden},
organization = {SERI, SNSF and Cantons of
Bern and Geneva, Switzerland},
organization = {MOST, Taiwan},
organization = {TENMAK, Türkiye},
organization = {STFC, United Kingdom},
organization = {DOE and NSF, United States of America},
organization = {BCKDF, CANARIE, Compute Canada and CRC, Canada},
organization = {PRIMUS
21/SCI/017 and UNCE SCI/013, Czech Republic},
organization = {COST, ERC, ERDF,
Horizon 2020 and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Union},
organization = {Investissements d’Avenir Labex, Investissements d’Avenir Idex and
ANR,France},
organization = {DFGandAvHFoundation, Germany},
organization = {Herakleitos, Thales
and Aristeia programmes co-financed by EU-ESF and the Greek NSRF,
Greece},
organization = {BSF-NSF and MINERVA, Israel},
organization = {Norwegian Financial Mechanism
2014-2021, Norway},
organization = {NCN and NAWA, Poland},
organization = {La Caixa Banking
Foundation, CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya and
PROMETEO and GenT Programmes Generalitat Valenciana, Spain},
organization = {Göran Gustafssons Stiftelse, Sweden},
organization = {The Royal Society and Leverhulme
Trust, United Kingdom},
organization = {Crucial computing support from
all WLCG partners},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
title = {A precise measurement of the Z-boson double-differential transverse momentum and rapidity distributions in the full phase space of the decay leptons with the ATLAS experiment at √ s = 8 TeV},
doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12438-w},
author = {Aad, G. and Rodríguez Chala, Mikael and Atlas Collaboration},
}