Measurement of forward W and Z boson production in pp collisions at root s=8TeV

Measurements are presented of electroweak boson production using data from pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of root s = 8TeV. The analysis is based on an integrated luminosity of 2.0 fb(-1) recorded with the LHCb detector. The bosons are identified in the W -> mu nu and Z -> mu(+)mu(-) decay channels. The cross-sections are measured for muons in the pseudorapidity range 2.0 < eta < 4.5, with transverse momenta p(T) > 20 GeV/c and, in the case of the Z boson, a dimuon mass within 60 < M mu+mu- < 120 GeV/c(2). The results are sigma(W+) -> mu(+)nu(-) = 1093.6 +/- 2.1 +/- 7.2 +/- 10.9 +/- 12.7 pb, sigma(W-) -> mu(-)nu(-) = 818.4 +/- 1.9 +/- 5.0 +/- 7.0 +/- 9.5 pb, sigma(Z) -> mu(+)mu(-) = 95.0 +/- 0.3 +/- 0.7 +/- 1.1 +/- 1.1 pb, where the first uncertainties are statistical, the second are systematic, the third are due to the knowledge of the LHC beam energy and the fourth are due to the luminosity determination. The evolution of the W and Z boson cross-sections with centre-of-mass energy is studied using previously reported measurements with 1.0 fb(-1) of data at 7 TeV. Differential distributions are also presented. Results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics.

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Liupan An, Guido Andreassi, Aurelio Bay, Violaine Bellée, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Frédéric Blanc, Maxim Borisyak, Peter Clarke, Victor Coco, Greig Alan Cowan, Adam Davis, Michel De Cian, Hans Dijkstra, Mirco Dorigo, Paolo Durante, François Fleuret, Christoph Frei, Sebastiana Gianì, Olivier Göran Girard, Elena Graverini, Guido Haefeli, Xiaoxue Han, Thibaud Humair, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Ilya Komarov, Axel Kuonen, Yiming Li, Alessandro Mapelli, Pietro Marino, Maurizio Martinelli, Bastien Luca Muster, Tatsuya Nakada, Matthew Needham, Niko Neufeld, Luca Pescatore, Cédric Potterat, Jessica Prisciandaro, Renato Quagliani, Gerhard Raven, Federico Leo Redi, Olivier Schneider, Maxime Schubiger, Liang Sun, Frédéric Teubert, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Maria Vieites Diaz, Jian Wang, Jean Wicht, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang
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