"This Letter reports a measurement of the muon charge asymmetry from W bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The asymmetry is measured in the W -> mu nu decay mode as a function of the muon pseudorapidity using a data sample corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 31 pb(-1). The results are compared to predictions based on next-to-leading order calculations with various parton distribution functions. This measurement provides information on the u and d quark momentum fractions in the proton. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. RI Jakubek, Jan\/E-6530-2011; valente, paolo\/A-6640-2010; Smirnov, Sergei\/F-1014-2011; Fazio, Salvatore \/G-5156-2010; Marti-Garcia, Salvador\/F-3085-2011; Doyle, Anthony\/C-5889-2009; Laycock, Paul\/F-7543-2011; Conde Muino, Patricia\/F-7696-2011; Stoicea, Gabriel\/B-6717-2011; Robson, Aidan\/G-1087-2011; Kladiva, Eduard\/G-6305-2011; Losada, Marta\/B-2261-2010; Jones, Roger\/H-5578-2011; Gutierrez, Phillip\/C-1161-2011; collins-tooth, christopher\/A-9201-2012; Ferrando, James\/A-9192-2012; Perrino, Roberto\/B-4633-2010; De Cecco, Sandro\/B-1016-2012; branchini, paolo\/A-4857-2011; Wolter, Marcin\/A-7412-2012; McKee, Shawn\/B-6435-2012; Rotaru, Marina\/A-3097-2011; O'Shea, Val\/G-1279-2010; Nemecek, Stanislav\/C-3487-2012; Buttar, Craig\/D-3706-2011; Takai, Helio\/C-3301-2012; Britton, David\/F-2602-2010; Pina, Joao \/C-4391-2012; Li, Xuefei\/C-3861-2012; Smirnova, Lidia\/D-8089-2012; Gladilin, Leonid\/B-5226-2011; Kramarenko, Victor\/E-1781-2012; Prokoshin, Fedor\/E-2795-2012; Alexa, Calin\/F-6345-2010; Pacheco Pages, Andres\/C-5353-2011; Livan, Michele\/D-7531-2012; Petrucci, Fabrizio\/G-8348-2012; Wemans, Andre\/A-6738-2012; Fabbri, Laura\/H-3442-2012; Kurashige, Hisaya\/H-4916-2012; Villa, Mauro\/C-9883-2009; Delmastro, Marco\/I-5599-2012"

Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdelalim, A.a., Abdesselam, A., Abdinov, O., et al. (2011). Measurement of the W charge asymmetry in the W -> mu nu decay mode in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 701(1), 31-49 [10.1016/j.physletb.2011.05.024].

Measurement of the W charge asymmetry in the W -> mu nu decay mode in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

CERADINI, Filippo;DI MICCO, Biagio;Di Nardo R;Orestano D;PETRUCCI, FABRIZIO;Ruggieri F;SALAMANNA, GIUSEPPE;
2011-01-01

Abstract

"This Letter reports a measurement of the muon charge asymmetry from W bosons produced in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. The asymmetry is measured in the W -> mu nu decay mode as a function of the muon pseudorapidity using a data sample corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 31 pb(-1). The results are compared to predictions based on next-to-leading order calculations with various parton distribution functions. This measurement provides information on the u and d quark momentum fractions in the proton. (C) 2011 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. RI Jakubek, Jan\/E-6530-2011; valente, paolo\/A-6640-2010; Smirnov, Sergei\/F-1014-2011; Fazio, Salvatore \/G-5156-2010; Marti-Garcia, Salvador\/F-3085-2011; Doyle, Anthony\/C-5889-2009; Laycock, Paul\/F-7543-2011; Conde Muino, Patricia\/F-7696-2011; Stoicea, Gabriel\/B-6717-2011; Robson, Aidan\/G-1087-2011; Kladiva, Eduard\/G-6305-2011; Losada, Marta\/B-2261-2010; Jones, Roger\/H-5578-2011; Gutierrez, Phillip\/C-1161-2011; collins-tooth, christopher\/A-9201-2012; Ferrando, James\/A-9192-2012; Perrino, Roberto\/B-4633-2010; De Cecco, Sandro\/B-1016-2012; branchini, paolo\/A-4857-2011; Wolter, Marcin\/A-7412-2012; McKee, Shawn\/B-6435-2012; Rotaru, Marina\/A-3097-2011; O'Shea, Val\/G-1279-2010; Nemecek, Stanislav\/C-3487-2012; Buttar, Craig\/D-3706-2011; Takai, Helio\/C-3301-2012; Britton, David\/F-2602-2010; Pina, Joao \/C-4391-2012; Li, Xuefei\/C-3861-2012; Smirnova, Lidia\/D-8089-2012; Gladilin, Leonid\/B-5226-2011; Kramarenko, Victor\/E-1781-2012; Prokoshin, Fedor\/E-2795-2012; Alexa, Calin\/F-6345-2010; Pacheco Pages, Andres\/C-5353-2011; Livan, Michele\/D-7531-2012; Petrucci, Fabrizio\/G-8348-2012; Wemans, Andre\/A-6738-2012; Fabbri, Laura\/H-3442-2012; Kurashige, Hisaya\/H-4916-2012; Villa, Mauro\/C-9883-2009; Delmastro, Marco\/I-5599-2012"
2011
Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdelalim, A.a., Abdesselam, A., Abdinov, O., et al. (2011). Measurement of the W charge asymmetry in the W -> mu nu decay mode in pp collisions at root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 701(1), 31-49 [10.1016/j.physletb.2011.05.024].
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