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Inclusive W/Z production at CMS

At the LHC, the production cross sections of W/Z bosons are tens to hundreds of nanobarns. The production mechanism of these processes is well established in the Standard Model and these processes can be used as ``standard candles'' to help commission the CMS detector for physics. L...

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Autor principal: Tan, P.
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1358800
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Sumario:At the LHC, the production cross sections of W/Z bosons are tens to hundreds of nanobarns. The production mechanism of these processes is well established in the Standard Model and these processes can be used as ``standard candles'' to help commission the CMS detector for physics. Leptonic decays of W/Z bosons are expected to have very high trigger efficiency and signal to background ratio. Therefore they are ideal channels to study the properties of W/Z bosons in detail, such as cross sections and charge asymmetry. In this paper early CMS results on inclusive W/Z production at 10 TeV center-of-mass energy are discussed.