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

Document Type

Article

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.