The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96(-0.30)(+0.26) at Q (2) = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio sigma(W (+) +)/sigma(W (-) + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s-(s) over bar quark asymmetry.

Aad, G., Ceradini, F., DI MICCO, B., Orestano, D., Petrucci, F., Salamanna, G., et al. (2014). Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 05(5), 1-67 [10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068].

Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

CERADINI, Filippo;DI MICCO, Biagio;Orestano D;PETRUCCI, FABRIZIO;SALAMANNA, GIUSEPPE;DI NARDO, ROBERTO
2014-01-01

Abstract

The production of a W boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 4.6 fb(-1) of pp collision data at root s = 7 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. In events in which a W boson decays to an electron or muon, the charm quark is tagged either by its semileptonic decay to a muon or by the presence of a charmed meson. The integrated and differential cross sections as a function of the pseudorapidity of the lepton from the W-boson decay are measured. Results are compared to the predictions of next-to-leading-order QCD calculations obtained from various parton distribution function parameterisations. The ratio of the strange-to-down sea-quark distributions is determined to be 0.96(-0.30)(+0.26) at Q (2) = 1.9 GeV2, which supports the hypothesis of an SU(3)-symmetric composition of the light-quark sea. Additionally, the cross-section ratio sigma(W (+) +)/sigma(W (-) + c) is compared to the predictions obtained using parton distribution function parameterisations with different assumptions about the s-(s) over bar quark asymmetry.
2014
Aad, G., Ceradini, F., DI MICCO, B., Orestano, D., Petrucci, F., Salamanna, G., et al. (2014). Measurement of the production of a W boson in association with a charm quark in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 05(5), 1-67 [10.1007/JHEP05(2014)068].
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