Physics Letters B (Mar 2017)

Measurement of the WZ production cross section in pp collisions at s=13 TeV

  • V. Khachatryan,
  • A.M. Sirunyan,
  • A. Tumasyan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.01.011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 766, no. C
pp. 268 – 290

Abstract

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The WZ production cross section in proton–proton collisions at s=13 TeV is measured with the CMS experiment at the LHC using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.3 fb−1. The measurement is performed in the leptonic decay modes WZ→ℓνℓ′ℓ′, where ℓ,ℓ′=e,μ. The measured cross section for the range 60<mℓ′ℓ′<120 GeV is σ(pp→WZ)=39.9±3.2(stat) (syst)−3.1+2.9±0.4(theo)±1.3(lumi) pb, consistent with the standard model prediction.

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