Measurement of the differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive pp → W^± + X production at √s = 8 TeV

Authors

Ekaterina Avdeeva, CERNFollow
Rachel Bartek, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Kenneth A. Bloom, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Suvadeep Bose, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Daniel R. Claes, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Aaron Dominguez, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Caleb Fangmeier, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Rebeca Gonzalez Suarez, CERNFollow
Rami Kamalieddin, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Daniel Knowlton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ilya Kravchenko, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Jose Monroy, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
F. Meier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
F. Ratnikov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
J. E. Siado, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Gregory Snow, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
B. Stieger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
CMS Collaboration, CERNFollow

Date of this Version

2016

Citation

European Physics Journal C (2016) 76: 469. 27 pages. DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4293-4.

Comments

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive pp → W^± + X → μ^±ν + X production at √s = 8 TeV are measured as a function of muon pseudorapidity. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 18.8 fb⁻¹ recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. These results provide important constraints on the parton distribution functions of the proton in the range of the Bjorken scaling variable x from 10⁻³ to 10⁻¹.