"This Letter reports a measurement of the high-mass Drell-Yan differential cross-section in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV at the LHC. Based on an integrated luminosity of 4.9 fb(-1), the differential cross-section in the Z/gamma* -> e(+)e(-) channel is measured with the ATLAS detector as a function of the invariant mass, m(ee), in the range 116 < m(ee) < 1500 GeV, for a fiducial region in which both the electron and the positron have transverse momentum p(T) > 25 GeV and pseudorapidity vertical bar n vertical bar < 2.5. A comparison is made to various event generators and to the predictions of perturbative QCD calculations at next-to-next-to-leading order. (C) 2013 CERN. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved."

Aad, G., Abajyan, T., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdel Khalek, S., Abdelalim, A.A., et al. (2013). Measurement of the high-mass Drell–Yan differential cross-section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector. PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B, 725(4-5), 223-242 [10.1016/j.physletb.2013.07.049].

Measurement of the high-mass Drell–Yan differential cross-section in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Bortolotto V.;Ceradini F.;Di Micco B.;Di Nardo R.;Orestano D.;