The four-lepton (4l, l = e, mu) production cross section is measured in the mass range from 80 to 1000GeV using 20.3 fb(-1)of data in pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The 4l events are produced in the decays of resonant Zand Higgs bosons and the nonresonant ZZcontinuum originating from q (q) over bar, gg, and qg initial states. A total of 476 signal candidate events are observed with a background expectation of 26.2 +/- 3.6 events, enabling the measurement of the integrated cross section and the differential cross section as a function of the invariant mass and transverse momentum of the four-lepton system. In the mass range above 180GeV, assuming the theoretical constraint on the q (q) over bar production cross section calculated with perturbative NNLO QCD and NLO electroweak corrections, the signal strength of the gluon-fusion component relative to its leading-order prediction is determined to be mu(gg) = 2.4 +/- 1.0(stat.) +/- 0.5(syst.) +/- 0.8(theory). (C) 2015 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Measurements of four-lepton production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector / Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., Abouzeid, O.S., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B.S., Adamczyk, L., Adams, D.L., Adelman, J., Adomeit, S., Adye, T., Affolder, A.A., Agatonovic Jovin, T., Agricola, J., et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - 753:(2016), pp. 552-572. [10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.048]

Measurements of four-lepton production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Artoni, G.;BAGNAIA, Paolo;BINI, Cesare;DE CECCO, Sandro;Di Domenico, A.;GAUZZI, Paolo;GENTILE, Simonetta;GIAGU, Stefano;Kado, M.;LACAVA, Francesco;LUCI, Claudio;MESSINA, Andrea;Policicchio, A.;
2016

Abstract

The four-lepton (4l, l = e, mu) production cross section is measured in the mass range from 80 to 1000GeV using 20.3 fb(-1)of data in pp collisions at root s = 8 TeV collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The 4l events are produced in the decays of resonant Zand Higgs bosons and the nonresonant ZZcontinuum originating from q (q) over bar, gg, and qg initial states. A total of 476 signal candidate events are observed with a background expectation of 26.2 +/- 3.6 events, enabling the measurement of the integrated cross section and the differential cross section as a function of the invariant mass and transverse momentum of the four-lepton system. In the mass range above 180GeV, assuming the theoretical constraint on the q (q) over bar production cross section calculated with perturbative NNLO QCD and NLO electroweak corrections, the signal strength of the gluon-fusion component relative to its leading-order prediction is determined to be mu(gg) = 2.4 +/- 1.0(stat.) +/- 0.5(syst.) +/- 0.8(theory). (C) 2015 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
2016
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Measurements of four-lepton production in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector / Aad, G., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdinov, O., Aben, R., Abolins, M., Abouzeid, O.S., Abramowicz, H., Abreu, H., Abreu, R., Abulaiti, Y., Acharya, B.S., Adamczyk, L., Adams, D.L., Adelman, J., Adomeit, S., Adye, T., Affolder, A.A., Agatonovic Jovin, T., Agricola, J., et al.. - In: PHYSICS LETTERS. SECTION B. - ISSN 0370-2693. - 753:(2016), pp. 552-572. [10.1016/j.physletb.2015.12.048]
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