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Measurement of the Z boson invisible width at s=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector

  • The ATLAS collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • University of Göttingen
  • TU Dortmund University
  • United States Department of Energy
  • Mohammed V University in Rabat
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • New York University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • Université Savoie Mont Blanc
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brandeis University
  • University of Manchester
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Istanbul University
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of California at Santa Cruz
  • CERN
  • Institute for High Energy Physics
  • University of Pavia
  • Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi
  • McGill University
  • Royal Holloway University of London
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • University of Valencia
  • University of Hassan II Casablanca
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Lund University
  • Waseda University
  • University of Bonn
  • Bogazici University
  • Columbia University
  • University of Victoria BC

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Abstract

A measurement of the invisible width of the Z boson using events with jets and missing transverse momentum is presented using 37 fb−1 of 13 TeV proton–proton data collected by the ATLAS detector in 2015 and 2016. The ratio of Z→inv to Z→ℓℓ events, where inv refers to non-detected particles and ℓ is either an electron or a muon, is measured and corrected for detector effects. Events with at least one energetic central jet with pT≥110 GeV are selected for both the Z→inv and Z→ℓℓ final states to obtain a similar phase space in the ratio. The invisible width is measured to be 506±2(stat.)±12(syst.) MeV and is the single most precise recoil-based measurement. The result is in agreement with the most precise determination from LEP and the Standard Model prediction based on three neutrino generations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number138705
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume854
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2024

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