Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV

L. Adamczyk; G. Agakishiev; M. M. Aggarwal; Z. Ahammed; A. V. Alakhverdyants; I. Alekseev; J. Alford; B. D. Anderson; C. D. Anson; D. Arkhipkin; E. Aschenauer; G. S. Averichev; J. Balewski; A. Banerjee; Z. Barnovska; D. R. Beavis; R. Bellwied; M. J. Betancourt; R. R. Betts; A. Bhasin; A. K. Bhati; H. Bichsel; J. Bielcik; J. Bielcikova; L. C. Bland; I. G. Bordyuzhin; W. Borowski; J. Bouchet; A. V. Brandin; S. G. Brovko; E. Bruna; S. Bueltmann; I. Bunzarov; T. P. Burton; J. Butterworth; X. Z. Cai; H. Caines; M. Calderón De La Barca Sánchez; D. Cebra; R. Cendejas; M. C. Cervantes; P. Chaloupka; S. Chattopadhyay; H. F. Chen; J. H. Chen; J. Y. Chen; L. Chen; J. Cheng; M. Cherney; A. Chikanian; W. Christie; P. Chung; J. Chwastowski; M. J.M. Codrington; R. Corliss; J. G. Cramer; H. J. Crawford; X. Cui; A. Davila Leyva; L. C. De Silva; R. R. Debbe; T. G. Dedovich; J. Deng; R. Derradi De Souza; S. Dhamija; L. Didenko; F. Ding; A. Dion; P. Djawotho; X. Dong; J. L. Drachenberg; J. E. Draper; C. M. Du; L. E. Dunkelberger; J. C. Dunlop; L. G. Efimov; M. Elnimr; J. Engelage; G. Eppley; L. Eun; O. Evdokimov; R. Fatemi; S. Fazio; J. Fedorisin; R. G. Fersch; P. Filip; E. Finch; Y. Fisyak; C. A. Gagliardi; D. R. Gangadharan; F. Geurts; S. Gliske; Y. N. Gorbunov; O. G. Grebenyuk; D. Grosnick; S. Gupta; W. Guryn; B. Haag; O. Hajkova; A. Hamed; L. X. Han; J. W. Harris; J. P. Hays-Wehle; S. Heppelmann; A. Hirsch; G. W. Hoffmann; D. J. Hofman; S. Horvat; B. Huang; H. Z. Huang; P. Huck; T. J. Humanic; L. Huo; G. Igo; W. W. Jacobs; C. Jena; J. Joseph; E. G. Judd; S. Kabana; K. Kang; J. Kapitan; K. Kauder; H. W. Ke; D. Keane; A. Kechechyan; A. Kesich; D. Kettler; D. P. Kikola; J. Kiryluk; A. Kisiel; V. Kizka; S. R. Klein; D. D. Koetke; T. Kollegger; J. Konzer; I. Koralt; L. Koroleva; W. Korsch; L. Kotchenda; P. Kravtsov; K. Krueger; L. Kumar; M. A.C. Lamont; J. M. Landgraf; S. Lapointe; J. Lauret; A. Lebedev; R. Lednicky; J. H. Lee; W. Leight; M. J. Levine; C. Li; L. Li; W. Li; X. Li; X. Li; Y. Li; Z. M. Li; L. M. Lima; M. A. Lisa; F. Liu; T. Ljubicic; W. J. Llope; R. S. Longacre; Y. Lu; X. Luo; A. Luszczak; G. L. Ma; Y. G. Ma; D. P. Mahapatra; R. Majka; O. I. Mall; S. Margetis; C. Markert; H. Masui; H. S. Matis; D. McDonald; T. S. McShane; S. Mioduszewski; M. K. Mitrovski; Y. Mohammed; B. Mohanty; B. Morozov; M. G. Munhoz; M. K. Mustafa; M. Naglis; B. K. Nandi; Md Nasim; T. K. Nayak; L. V. Nogach; G. Odyniec; A. Ogawa; K. Oh; A. Ohlson; V. Okorokov; E. W. Oldag; R. A.N. Oliveira; D. Olson; P. Ostrowski; M. Pachr; B. S. Page; S. K. Pal; Y. A. Pan; Y. Pandit; Y. Panebratsev; T. Pawlak; B. Pawlik; H. Pei; C. Perkins; W. Peryt; P. Pile; M. Planinic; J. Pluta; D. Plyku; N. Poljak; J. Porter; A. M. Poskanzer; C. B. Powell; D. Prindle; C. Pruneau; N. K. Pruthi; M. Przybycien; P. R. Pujahari; J. Putschke; H. Qiu; R. Raniwala; S. Raniwala; R. L. Ray; R. Redwine; R. Reed; C. K. Riley; H. G. Ritter; J. B. Roberts; O. V. Rogachevskiy; J. L. Romero; L. Ruan; J. Rusnak; N. R. Sahoo; I. Sakrejda; S. Salur; A. Sandacz; J. Sandweiss; E. Sangaline; A. Sarkar; J. Schambach; R. P. Scharenberg; A. M. Schmah; B. Schmidke; N. Schmitz; T. R. Schuster; J. Seele; J. Seger; P. Seyboth; N. Shah; E. Shahaliev; M. Shao; B. Sharma; M. Sharma; S. S. Shi; Q. Y. Shou; E. P. Sichtermann; R. N. Singaraju; M. J. Skoby; D. Smirnov; N. Smirnov; D. Solanki; P. Sorensen; U. G. Desouza; H. M. Spinka; B. Srivastava; T. D.S. Stanislaus; S. G. Steadman; J. R. Stevens; R. Stock; M. Strikhanov; B. Stringfellow; A. A.P. Suaide; M. C. Suarez; M. Sumbera; X. M. Sun; Y. Sun; Z. Sun; B. Surrow; D. N. Svirida; T. J.M. Symons; A. Szanto De Toledo; J. Takahashi; A. H. Tang; Z. Tang; L. H. Tarini; T. Tarnowsky; D. Thein; J. H. Thomas; J. Tian; A. R. Timmins; D. Tlusty; M. Tokarev; T. A. Trainor; S. Trentalange; R. E. Tribble; P. Tribedy; B. A. Trzeciak; O. D. Tsai; J. Turnau; T. Ullrich; D. G. Underwood; G. Van Buren; G. Van Nieuwenhuizen; J. A. Vanfossen; R. Varma; G. M.S. Vasconcelos; F. Videbæk; Y. P. Viyogi; S. Vokal; S. A. Voloshin; A. Vossen; M. Wada; F. Wang; G. Wang; H. Wang; J. S. Wang; Q. Wang; X. L. Wang; Y. Wang; G. Webb; J. C. Webb; G. D. Westfall; C. Whitten; H. Wieman; S. W. Wissink; R. Witt; W. Witzke; Y. F. Wu; Z. Xiao; W. Xie; K. Xin; H. Xu; N. Xu; Q. H. Xu; W. Xu; Y. Xu; Z. Xu; L. Xue; Y. Yang; Y. Yang; P. Yepes; Y. Yi; K. Yip; I. K. Yoo; M. Zawisza; H. Zbroszczyk; J. B. Zhang; S. Zhang; W. M. Zhang; X. P. Zhang; Y. Zhang; Z. P. Zhang; F. Zhao; J. Zhao; C. Zhong; X. Zhu; Y. H. Zhu; Y. Zoulkarneeva

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.092010

Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ ^*→e ⁺e ^- production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV

L. Adamczyk, G. Agakishiev, M. M. Aggarwal, Z. Ahammed, A. V. Alakhverdyants, I. Alekseev, J. Alford, B. D. Anderson, C. D. Anson, D. Arkhipkin, E. Aschenauer, G. S. Averichev, J. Balewski, A. Banerjee, Z. Barnovska, D. R. Beavis, R. Bellwied, M. J. Betancourt, R. R. Betts, A. BhasinA. K. Bhati, H. Bichsel, J. Bielcik, J. Bielcikova, L. C. Bland, I. G. Bordyuzhin, W. Borowski, J. Bouchet, A. V. Brandin, S. G. Brovko, E. Bruna, S. Bueltmann, I. Bunzarov, T. P. Burton, J. Butterworth, X. Z. Cai, H. Caines, M. Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, D. Cebra, R. Cendejas, M. C. Cervantes, P. Chaloupka, S. Chattopadhyay, H. F. Chen, J. H. Chen, J. Y. Chen, L. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Cherney, A. Chikanian, W. Christie, P. Chung, J. Chwastowski, M. J.M. Codrington, R. Corliss, J. G. Cramer, H. J. Crawford, X. Cui, A. Davila Leyva, L. C. De Silva, R. R. Debbe, T. G. Dedovich, J. Deng, R. Derradi De Souza, S. Dhamija, L. Didenko, F. Ding, A. Dion, P. Djawotho, X. Dong, J. L. Drachenberg, J. E. Draper, C. M. Du, L. E. Dunkelberger, J. C. Dunlop, L. G. Efimov, M. Elnimr, J. Engelage, G. Eppley, L. Eun, O. Evdokimov, R. Fatemi, S. Fazio, J. Fedorisin, R. G. Fersch, P. Filip, E. Finch, Y. Fisyak, C. A. Gagliardi, D. R. Gangadharan, F. Geurts, S. Gliske, Y. N. Gorbunov, O. G. Grebenyuk, D. Grosnick, S. Gupta, W. Guryn, B. Haag, O. Hajkova, A. Hamed, L. X. Han, J. W. Harris, J. P. Hays-Wehle, S. Heppelmann, A. Hirsch, G. W. Hoffmann, D. J. Hofman, S. Horvat, B. Huang, H. Z. Huang, P. Huck, T. J. Humanic, L. Huo, G. Igo, W. W. Jacobs, C. Jena, J. Joseph, E. G. Judd, S. Kabana, K. Kang, J. Kapitan, K. Kauder, H. W. Ke, D. Keane, A. Kechechyan, A. Kesich, D. Kettler, D. P. Kikola, J. Kiryluk, A. Kisiel, V. Kizka, S. R. Klein, D. D. Koetke, T. Kollegger, J. Konzer, I. Koralt, L. Koroleva, W. Korsch, L. Kotchenda, P. Kravtsov, K. Krueger, L. Kumar, M. A.C. Lamont, J. M. Landgraf, S. Lapointe, J. Lauret, A. Lebedev, R. Lednicky, J. H. Lee, W. Leight, M. J. Levine, C. Li, L. Li, W. Li, X. Li, X. Li, Y. Li, Z. M. Li, L. M. Lima, M. A. Lisa, F. Liu, T. Ljubicic, W. J. Llope, R. S. Longacre, Y. Lu, X. Luo, A. Luszczak, G. L. Ma, Y. G. Ma, D. P. Mahapatra, R. Majka, O. I. Mall, S. Margetis, C. Markert, H. Masui, H. S. Matis, D. McDonald, T. S. McShane, S. Mioduszewski, M. K. Mitrovski, Y. Mohammed, B. Mohanty, B. Morozov, M. G. Munhoz, M. K. Mustafa, M. Naglis, B. K. Nandi, Md Nasim, T. K. Nayak, L. V. Nogach, G. Odyniec, A. Ogawa, K. Oh, A. Ohlson, V. Okorokov, E. W. Oldag, R. A.N. Oliveira, D. Olson, P. Ostrowski, M. Pachr, B. S. Page, S. K. Pal, Y. A. Pan, Y. Pandit, Y. Panebratsev, T. Pawlak, B. Pawlik, H. Pei, C. Perkins, W. Peryt, P. Pile, M. Planinic, J. Pluta, D. Plyku, N. Poljak, J. Porter, A. M. Poskanzer, C. B. Powell, D. Prindle, C. Pruneau, N. K. Pruthi, M. Przybycien, P. R. Pujahari, J. Putschke, H. Qiu, R. Raniwala, S. Raniwala, R. L. Ray, R. Redwine, R. Reed, C. K. Riley, H. G. Ritter, J. B. Roberts, O. V. Rogachevskiy, J. L. Romero, L. Ruan, J. Rusnak, N. R. Sahoo, I. Sakrejda, S. Salur, A. Sandacz, J. Sandweiss, E. Sangaline, A. Sarkar, J. Schambach, R. P. Scharenberg, A. M. Schmah, B. Schmidke, N. Schmitz, T. R. Schuster, J. Seele, J. Seger, P. Seyboth, N. Shah, E. Shahaliev, M. Shao, B. Sharma, M. Sharma, S. S. Shi, Q. Y. Shou, E. P. Sichtermann, R. N. Singaraju, M. J. Skoby, D. Smirnov, N. Smirnov, D. Solanki, P. Sorensen, U. G. Desouza, H. M. Spinka, B. Srivastava, T. D.S. Stanislaus, S. G. Steadman, J. R. Stevens, R. Stock, M. Strikhanov, B. Stringfellow, A. A.P. Suaide, M. C. Suarez, M. Sumbera, X. M. Sun, Y. Sun, Z. Sun, B. Surrow, D. N. Svirida, T. J.M. Symons, A. Szanto De Toledo, J. Takahashi, A. H. Tang, Z. Tang, L. H. Tarini, T. Tarnowsky, D. Thein, J. H. Thomas, J. Tian, A. R. Timmins, D. Tlusty, M. Tokarev, T. A. Trainor, S. Trentalange, R. E. Tribble, P. Tribedy, B. A. Trzeciak, O. D. Tsai, J. Turnau, T. Ullrich, D. G. Underwood, G. Van Buren, G. Van Nieuwenhuizen, J. A. Vanfossen, R. Varma, G. M.S. Vasconcelos, F. Videbæk, Y. P. Viyogi, S. Vokal, S. A. Voloshin, A. Vossen, M. Wada, F. Wang, G. Wang, H. Wang, J. S. Wang, Q. Wang, X. L. Wang, Y. Wang, G. Webb, J. C. Webb, G. D. Westfall, C. Whitten, H. Wieman, S. W. Wissink, R. Witt, W. Witzke, Y. F. Wu, Z. Xiao, W. Xie, K. Xin, H. Xu, N. Xu, Q. H. Xu, W. Xu, Y. Xu, Z. Xu, L. Xue, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, P. Yepes, Y. Yi, K. Yip, I. K. Yoo, M. Zawisza, H. Zbroszczyk, J. B. Zhang, S. Zhang, W. M. Zhang, X. P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, C. Zhong, X. Zhu, Y. H. Zhu, Y. Zoulkarneeva

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Abstract

We report measurements of the charge-separated W ⁺( ^-)→e ⁺( ^-) ⁺ν _e(ν _̄e) and Z/γ ^*→e ⁺e ^- production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV. These results are based on 13.2pb ^-1 of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the eν channel were measured to be σ(pp→W ⁺X)•BR(W ⁺→e ⁺ν _e)=117.3±5.9(stat)±6.2(syst)±15.2(lumi)pb, and σ(pp→W ^-X)•BR(W ^-→e ^-ν _̄e)=43.3±4.6(stat)±3.4(syst) ±5.6(lumi)pb. For Z/γ ^* production, σ(pp→Z/γ ^*X)•BR(Z/γ ^*→e ⁺e ^-)=7.7±2.1(stat)-0.9+0. 5(syst)±1.0(lumi)pb was measured for di-lepton invariant masses me ⁺e ^- between 70 and 110GeV/c2. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, σ(pp→W ⁺X)/σ(pp→W ^-X), at √s=500GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	092010
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	85
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.092010
State	Published - May 16 2012
Externally published	Yes

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Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., Alford, J., Anderson, B. D., Anson, C. D., Arkhipkin, D., Aschenauer, E., Averichev, G. S., Balewski, J., Banerjee, A., Barnovska, Z., Beavis, D. R., Bellwied, R., Betancourt, M. J., Betts, R. R., ... Zoulkarneeva, Y. (2012). Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ ^*→e ⁺e ^- production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 85(9), Article 092010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.092010

Adamczyk, L, Agakishiev, G, Aggarwal, MM, Ahammed, Z, Alakhverdyants, AV, Alekseev, I, Alford, J, Anderson, BD, Anson, CD, Arkhipkin, D, Aschenauer, E, Averichev, GS, Balewski, J, Banerjee, A, Barnovska, Z, Beavis, DR, Bellwied, R, Betancourt, MJ, Betts, RR, Bhasin, A, Bhati, AK, Bichsel, H, Bielcik, J, Bielcikova, J, Bland, LC, Bordyuzhin, IG, Borowski, W, Bouchet, J, Brandin, AV, Brovko, SG, Bruna, E, Bueltmann, S, Bunzarov, I, Burton, TP, Butterworth, J, Cai, XZ, Caines, H, Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, M, Cebra, D, Cendejas, R, Cervantes, MC, Chaloupka, P, Chattopadhyay, S, Chen, HF, Chen, JH, Chen, JY, Chen, L, Cheng, J, Cherney, M, Chikanian, A, Christie, W, Chung, P, Chwastowski, J, Codrington, MJM, Corliss, R, Cramer, JG, Crawford, HJ, Cui, X, Davila Leyva, A, De Silva, LC, Debbe, RR, Dedovich, TG, Deng, J, Derradi De Souza, R, Dhamija, S, Didenko, L, Ding, F, Dion, A, Djawotho, P, Dong, X, Drachenberg, JL, Draper, JE, Du, CM, Dunkelberger, LE, Dunlop, JC, Efimov, LG, Elnimr, M, Engelage, J, Eppley, G, Eun, L, Evdokimov, O, Fatemi, R, Fazio, S, Fedorisin, J, Fersch, RG, Filip, P, Finch, E, Fisyak, Y, Gagliardi, CA, Gangadharan, DR, Geurts, F, Gliske, S, Gorbunov, YN, Grebenyuk, OG, Grosnick, D, Gupta, S, Guryn, W, Haag, B, Hajkova, O, Hamed, A, Han, LX, Harris, JW, Hays-Wehle, JP, Heppelmann, S, Hirsch, A, Hoffmann, GW, Hofman, DJ, Horvat, S, Huang, B, Huang, HZ, Huck, P, Humanic, TJ, Huo, L, Igo, G, Jacobs, WW, Jena, C, Joseph, J, Judd, EG, Kabana, S, Kang, K, Kapitan, J, Kauder, K, Ke, HW, Keane, D, Kechechyan, A, Kesich, A, Kettler, D, Kikola, DP, Kiryluk, J, Kisiel, A, Kizka, V, Klein, SR, Koetke, DD, Kollegger, T, Konzer, J, Koralt, I, Koroleva, L, Korsch, W, Kotchenda, L, Kravtsov, P, Krueger, K, Kumar, L, Lamont, MAC, Landgraf, JM, Lapointe, S, Lauret, J, Lebedev, A, Lednicky, R, Lee, JH, Leight, W, Levine, MJ, Li, C, Li, L, Li, W, Li, X, Li, X, Li, Y, Li, ZM, Lima, LM, Lisa, MA, Liu, F, Ljubicic, T, Llope, WJ, Longacre, RS, Lu, Y, Luo, X, Luszczak, A, Ma, GL, Ma, YG, Mahapatra, DP, Majka, R, Mall, OI, Margetis, S, Markert, C, Masui, H, Matis, HS, McDonald, D, McShane, TS, Mioduszewski, S, Mitrovski, MK, Mohammed, Y, Mohanty, B, Morozov, B, Munhoz, MG, Mustafa, MK, Naglis, M, Nandi, BK, Nasim, M, Nayak, TK, Nogach, LV, Odyniec, G, Ogawa, A, Oh, K, Ohlson, A, Okorokov, V, Oldag, EW, Oliveira, RAN, Olson, D, Ostrowski, P, Pachr, M, Page, BS, Pal, SK, Pan, YA, Pandit, Y, Panebratsev, Y, Pawlak, T, Pawlik, B, Pei, H, Perkins, C, Peryt, W, Pile, P, Planinic, M, Pluta, J, Plyku, D, Poljak, N, Porter, J, Poskanzer, AM, Powell, CB, Prindle, D, Pruneau, C, Pruthi, NK, Przybycien, M, Pujahari, PR, Putschke, J, Qiu, H, Raniwala, R, Raniwala, S, Ray, RL, Redwine, R, Reed, R, Riley, CK, Ritter, HG, Roberts, JB, Rogachevskiy, OV, Romero, JL, Ruan, L, Rusnak, J, Sahoo, NR, Sakrejda, I, Salur, S, Sandacz, A, Sandweiss, J, Sangaline, E, Sarkar, A, Schambach, J, Scharenberg, RP, Schmah, AM, Schmidke, B, Schmitz, N, Schuster, TR, Seele, J, Seger, J, Seyboth, P, Shah, N, Shahaliev, E, Shao, M, Sharma, B, Sharma, M, Shi, SS, Shou, QY, Sichtermann, EP, Singaraju, RN, Skoby, MJ, Smirnov, D, Smirnov, N, Solanki, D, Sorensen, P, Desouza, UG, Spinka, HM, Srivastava, B, Stanislaus, TDS, Steadman, SG, Stevens, JR, Stock, R, Strikhanov, M, Stringfellow, B, Suaide, AAP, Suarez, MC, Sumbera, M, Sun, XM, Sun, Y, Sun, Z, Surrow, B, Svirida, DN, Symons, TJM, Szanto De Toledo, A, Takahashi, J, Tang, AH, Tang, Z, Tarini, LH, Tarnowsky, T, Thein, D, Thomas, JH, Tian, J, Timmins, AR, Tlusty, D, Tokarev, M, Trainor, TA, Trentalange, S, Tribble, RE, Tribedy, P, Trzeciak, BA, Tsai, OD, Turnau, J, Ullrich, T, Underwood, DG, Van Buren, G, Van Nieuwenhuizen, G, Vanfossen, JA, Varma, R, Vasconcelos, GMS, Videbæk, F, Viyogi, YP, Vokal, S, Voloshin, SA, Vossen, A, Wada, M, Wang, F, Wang, G, Wang, H, Wang, JS, Wang, Q, Wang, XL, Wang, Y, Webb, G, Webb, JC, Westfall, GD, Whitten, C, Wieman, H, Wissink, SW, Witt, R, Witzke, W, Wu, YF, Xiao, Z, Xie, W, Xin, K, Xu, H, Xu, N, Xu, QH, Xu, W, Xu, Y, Xu, Z, Xue, L, Yang, Y, Yang, Y, Yepes, P, Yi, Y, Yip, K, Yoo, IK, Zawisza, M, Zbroszczyk, H, Zhang, JB, Zhang, S, Zhang, WM, Zhang, XP, Zhang, Y, Zhang, ZP, Zhao, F, Zhao, J, Zhong, C, Zhu, X, Zhu, YH & Zoulkarneeva, Y 2012, 'Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ ^*→e ⁺e ^- production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV', Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 85, no. 9, 092010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.092010

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title = "Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV",

abstract = "We report measurements of the charge-separated W +( -)→e +( -) +ν e(ν{\= }e) and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV. These results are based on 13.2pb -1 of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the eν channel were measured to be σ(pp→W +X)•BR(W +→e +ν e)=117.3±5.9(stat)±6.2(syst)±15.2(lumi)pb, and σ(pp→W -X)•BR(W -→e -ν{\= }e)=43.3±4.6(stat)±3.4(syst) ±5.6(lumi)pb. For Z/γ * production, σ(pp→Z/γ *X)•BR(Z/γ *→e +e -)=7.7±2.1(stat)-0.9+0. 5(syst)±1.0(lumi)pb was measured for di-lepton invariant masses me +e - between 70 and 110GeV/c2. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, σ(pp→W +X)/σ(pp→W -X), at √s=500GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections.",

author = "L. Adamczyk and G. Agakishiev and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and Z. Ahammed and Alakhverdyants, {A. V.} and I. Alekseev and J. Alford and Anderson, {B. D.} and Anson, {C. D.} and D. Arkhipkin and E. Aschenauer and Averichev, {G. S.} and J. Balewski and A. Banerjee and Z. Barnovska and Beavis, {D. R.} and R. Bellwied and Betancourt, {M. J.} and Betts, {R. R.} and A. Bhasin and Bhati, {A. K.} and H. Bichsel and J. Bielcik and J. Bielcikova and Bland, {L. C.} and Bordyuzhin, {I. G.} and W. Borowski and J. Bouchet and Brandin, {A. V.} and Brovko, {S. G.} and E. Bruna and S. Bueltmann and I. Bunzarov and Burton, {T. P.} and J. Butterworth and Cai, {X. Z.} and H. Caines and {Calder{\'o}n De La Barca S{\'a}nchez}, M. and D. Cebra and R. Cendejas and Cervantes, {M. C.} and P. Chaloupka and S. Chattopadhyay and Chen, {H. F.} and Chen, {J. H.} and Chen, {J. Y.} and L. Chen and J. Cheng and M. Cherney and A. Chikanian and W. Christie and P. Chung and J. Chwastowski and Codrington, {M. J.M.} and R. Corliss and Cramer, {J. G.} and Crawford, {H. J.} and X. Cui and {Davila Leyva}, A. and {De Silva}, {L. C.} and Debbe, {R. R.} and Dedovich, {T. G.} and J. Deng and {Derradi De Souza}, R. and S. Dhamija and L. Didenko and F. Ding and A. Dion and P. Djawotho and X. Dong and Drachenberg, {J. L.} and Draper, {J. E.} and Du, {C. M.} and Dunkelberger, {L. E.} and Dunlop, {J. C.} and Efimov, {L. G.} and M. Elnimr and J. Engelage and G. Eppley and L. Eun and O. Evdokimov and R. Fatemi and S. Fazio and J. Fedorisin and Fersch, {R. G.} and P. Filip and E. Finch and Y. Fisyak and Gagliardi, {C. A.} and Gangadharan, {D. R.} and F. Geurts and S. Gliske and Gorbunov, {Y. N.} and Grebenyuk, {O. G.} and D. Grosnick and S. Gupta and W. Guryn and B. Haag and O. Hajkova and A. Hamed and Han, {L. X.} and Harris, {J. W.} and Hays-Wehle, {J. P.} and S. Heppelmann and A. Hirsch and Hoffmann, {G. W.} and Hofman, {D. J.} and S. Horvat and B. Huang and Huang, {H. Z.} and P. Huck and Humanic, {T. J.} and L. Huo and G. Igo and Jacobs, {W. W.} and C. Jena and J. Joseph and Judd, {E. G.} and S. Kabana and K. Kang and J. Kapitan and K. Kauder and Ke, {H. W.} and D. Keane and A. Kechechyan and A. Kesich and D. Kettler and Kikola, {D. P.} and J. Kiryluk and A. Kisiel and V. Kizka and Klein, {S. R.} and Koetke, {D. D.} and T. Kollegger and J. Konzer and I. Koralt and L. Koroleva and W. Korsch and L. Kotchenda and P. Kravtsov and K. Krueger and L. Kumar and Lamont, {M. A.C.} and Landgraf, {J. M.} and S. Lapointe and J. Lauret and A. Lebedev and R. Lednicky and Lee, {J. H.} and W. Leight and Levine, {M. J.} and C. Li and L. Li and W. Li and X. Li and X. Li and Y. Li and Li, {Z. M.} and Lima, {L. M.} and Lisa, {M. A.} and F. Liu and T. Ljubicic and Llope, {W. J.} and Longacre, {R. S.} and Y. Lu and X. Luo and A. Luszczak and Ma, {G. L.} and Ma, {Y. G.} and Mahapatra, {D. P.} and R. Majka and Mall, {O. I.} and S. Margetis and C. Markert and H. Masui and Matis, {H. S.} and D. McDonald and McShane, {T. S.} and S. Mioduszewski and Mitrovski, {M. K.} and Y. Mohammed and B. Mohanty and B. Morozov and Munhoz, {M. G.} and Mustafa, {M. K.} and M. Naglis and Nandi, {B. K.} and Md Nasim and Nayak, {T. K.} and Nogach, {L. V.} and G. Odyniec and A. Ogawa and K. Oh and A. Ohlson and V. Okorokov and Oldag, {E. W.} and Oliveira, {R. A.N.} and D. Olson and P. Ostrowski and M. Pachr and Page, {B. S.} and Pal, {S. K.} and Pan, {Y. A.} and Y. Pandit and Y. Panebratsev and T. Pawlak and B. Pawlik and H. Pei and C. Perkins and W. Peryt and P. Pile and M. Planinic and J. Pluta and D. Plyku and N. Poljak and J. Porter and Poskanzer, {A. M.} and Powell, {C. B.} and D. Prindle and C. Pruneau and Pruthi, {N. K.} and M. Przybycien and Pujahari, {P. R.} and J. Putschke and H. Qiu and R. Raniwala and S. Raniwala and Ray, {R. L.} and R. Redwine and R. Reed and Riley, {C. K.} and Ritter, {H. G.} and Roberts, {J. B.} and Rogachevskiy, {O. V.} and Romero, {J. L.} and L. Ruan and J. Rusnak and Sahoo, {N. R.} and I. Sakrejda and S. Salur and A. Sandacz and J. Sandweiss and E. Sangaline and A. Sarkar and J. Schambach and Scharenberg, {R. P.} and Schmah, {A. M.} and B. Schmidke and N. Schmitz and Schuster, {T. R.} and J. Seele and J. Seger and P. Seyboth and N. Shah and E. Shahaliev and M. Shao and B. Sharma and M. Sharma and Shi, {S. S.} and Shou, {Q. Y.} and Sichtermann, {E. P.} and Singaraju, {R. N.} and Skoby, {M. J.} and D. Smirnov and N. Smirnov and D. Solanki and P. Sorensen and Desouza, {U. G.} and Spinka, {H. M.} and B. Srivastava and Stanislaus, {T. D.S.} and Steadman, {S. G.} and Stevens, {J. R.} and R. Stock and M. Strikhanov and B. Stringfellow and Suaide, {A. A.P.} and Suarez, {M. C.} and M. Sumbera and Sun, {X. M.} and Y. Sun and Z. Sun and B. Surrow and Svirida, {D. N.} and Symons, {T. J.M.} and {Szanto De Toledo}, A. and J. Takahashi and Tang, {A. H.} and Z. Tang and Tarini, {L. H.} and T. Tarnowsky and D. Thein and Thomas, {J. H.} and J. Tian and Timmins, {A. R.} and D. Tlusty and M. Tokarev and Trainor, {T. A.} and S. Trentalange and Tribble, {R. E.} and P. Tribedy and Trzeciak, {B. A.} and Tsai, {O. D.} and J. Turnau and T. Ullrich and Underwood, {D. G.} and {Van Buren}, G. and {Van Nieuwenhuizen}, G. and Vanfossen, {J. A.} and R. Varma and Vasconcelos, {G. M.S.} and F. Videb{\ae}k and Viyogi, {Y. P.} and S. Vokal and Voloshin, {S. A.} and A. Vossen and M. Wada and F. Wang and G. Wang and H. Wang and Wang, {J. S.} and Q. Wang and Wang, {X. L.} and Y. Wang and G. Webb and Webb, {J. C.} and Westfall, {G. D.} and C. Whitten and H. Wieman and Wissink, {S. W.} and R. Witt and W. Witzke and Wu, {Y. F.} and Z. Xiao and W. Xie and K. Xin and H. Xu and N. Xu and Xu, {Q. H.} and W. Xu and Y. Xu and Z. Xu and L. Xue and Y. Yang and Y. Yang and P. Yepes and Y. Yi and K. Yip and Yoo, {I. K.} and M. Zawisza and H. Zbroszczyk and Zhang, {J. B.} and S. Zhang and Zhang, {W. M.} and Zhang, {X. P.} and Y. Zhang and Zhang, {Z. P.} and F. Zhao and J. Zhao and C. Zhong and X. Zhu and Zhu, {Y. H.} and Y. Zoulkarneeva",

year = "2012",

month = may,

day = "16",

doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.85.092010",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "85",

journal = "Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology",

issn = "1550-7998",

number = "9",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV

AU - Adamczyk, L.

AU - Agakishiev, G.

AU - Aggarwal, M. M.

AU - Ahammed, Z.

AU - Alakhverdyants, A. V.

AU - Alekseev, I.

AU - Alford, J.

AU - Anderson, B. D.

AU - Anson, C. D.

AU - Arkhipkin, D.

AU - Aschenauer, E.

AU - Averichev, G. S.

AU - Balewski, J.

AU - Banerjee, A.

AU - Barnovska, Z.

AU - Beavis, D. R.

AU - Bellwied, R.

AU - Betancourt, M. J.

AU - Betts, R. R.

AU - Bhasin, A.

AU - Bhati, A. K.

AU - Bichsel, H.

AU - Bielcik, J.

AU - Bielcikova, J.

AU - Bland, L. C.

AU - Bordyuzhin, I. G.

AU - Borowski, W.

AU - Bouchet, J.

AU - Brandin, A. V.

AU - Brovko, S. G.

AU - Bruna, E.

AU - Bueltmann, S.

AU - Bunzarov, I.

AU - Burton, T. P.

AU - Butterworth, J.

AU - Cai, X. Z.

AU - Caines, H.

AU - Calderón De La Barca Sánchez, M.

AU - Cebra, D.

AU - Cendejas, R.

AU - Cervantes, M. C.

AU - Chaloupka, P.

AU - Chattopadhyay, S.

AU - Chen, H. F.

AU - Chen, J. H.

AU - Chen, J. Y.

AU - Chen, L.

AU - Cheng, J.

AU - Cherney, M.

AU - Chikanian, A.

AU - Christie, W.

AU - Chung, P.

AU - Chwastowski, J.

AU - Codrington, M. J.M.

AU - Corliss, R.

AU - Cramer, J. G.

AU - Crawford, H. J.

AU - Cui, X.

AU - Davila Leyva, A.

AU - De Silva, L. C.

AU - Debbe, R. R.

AU - Dedovich, T. G.

AU - Deng, J.

AU - Derradi De Souza, R.

AU - Dhamija, S.

AU - Didenko, L.

AU - Ding, F.

AU - Dion, A.

AU - Djawotho, P.

AU - Dong, X.

AU - Drachenberg, J. L.

AU - Draper, J. E.

AU - Du, C. M.

AU - Dunkelberger, L. E.

AU - Dunlop, J. C.

AU - Efimov, L. G.

AU - Elnimr, M.

AU - Engelage, J.

AU - Eppley, G.

AU - Eun, L.

AU - Evdokimov, O.

AU - Fatemi, R.

AU - Fazio, S.

AU - Fedorisin, J.

AU - Fersch, R. G.

AU - Filip, P.

AU - Finch, E.

AU - Fisyak, Y.

AU - Gagliardi, C. A.

AU - Gangadharan, D. R.

AU - Geurts, F.

AU - Gliske, S.

AU - Gorbunov, Y. N.

AU - Grebenyuk, O. G.

AU - Grosnick, D.

AU - Gupta, S.

AU - Guryn, W.

AU - Haag, B.

AU - Hajkova, O.

AU - Hamed, A.

AU - Han, L. X.

AU - Harris, J. W.

AU - Hays-Wehle, J. P.

AU - Heppelmann, S.

AU - Hirsch, A.

AU - Hoffmann, G. W.

AU - Hofman, D. J.

AU - Horvat, S.

AU - Huang, B.

AU - Huang, H. Z.

AU - Huck, P.

AU - Humanic, T. J.

AU - Huo, L.

AU - Igo, G.

AU - Jacobs, W. W.

AU - Jena, C.

AU - Joseph, J.

AU - Judd, E. G.

AU - Kabana, S.

AU - Kang, K.

AU - Kapitan, J.

AU - Kauder, K.

AU - Ke, H. W.

AU - Keane, D.

AU - Kechechyan, A.

AU - Kesich, A.

AU - Kettler, D.

AU - Kikola, D. P.

AU - Kiryluk, J.

AU - Kisiel, A.

AU - Kizka, V.

AU - Klein, S. R.

AU - Koetke, D. D.

AU - Kollegger, T.

AU - Konzer, J.

AU - Koralt, I.

AU - Koroleva, L.

AU - Korsch, W.

AU - Kotchenda, L.

AU - Kravtsov, P.

AU - Krueger, K.

AU - Kumar, L.

AU - Lamont, M. A.C.

AU - Landgraf, J. M.

AU - Lapointe, S.

AU - Lauret, J.

AU - Lebedev, A.

AU - Lednicky, R.

AU - Lee, J. H.

AU - Leight, W.

AU - Levine, M. J.

AU - Li, C.

AU - Li, L.

AU - Li, W.

AU - Li, X.

AU - Li, Y.

AU - Li, Z. M.

AU - Lima, L. M.

AU - Lisa, M. A.

AU - Liu, F.

AU - Ljubicic, T.

AU - Llope, W. J.

AU - Longacre, R. S.

AU - Lu, Y.

AU - Luo, X.

AU - Luszczak, A.

AU - Ma, G. L.

AU - Ma, Y. G.

AU - Mahapatra, D. P.

AU - Majka, R.

AU - Mall, O. I.

AU - Margetis, S.

AU - Markert, C.

AU - Masui, H.

AU - Matis, H. S.

AU - McDonald, D.

AU - McShane, T. S.

AU - Mioduszewski, S.

AU - Mitrovski, M. K.

AU - Mohammed, Y.

AU - Mohanty, B.

AU - Morozov, B.

AU - Munhoz, M. G.

AU - Mustafa, M. K.

AU - Naglis, M.

AU - Nandi, B. K.

AU - Nasim, Md

AU - Nayak, T. K.

AU - Nogach, L. V.

AU - Odyniec, G.

AU - Ogawa, A.

AU - Oh, K.

AU - Ohlson, A.

AU - Okorokov, V.

AU - Oldag, E. W.

AU - Oliveira, R. A.N.

AU - Olson, D.

AU - Ostrowski, P.

AU - Pachr, M.

AU - Page, B. S.

AU - Pal, S. K.

AU - Pan, Y. A.

AU - Pandit, Y.

AU - Panebratsev, Y.

AU - Pawlak, T.

AU - Pawlik, B.

AU - Pei, H.

AU - Perkins, C.

AU - Peryt, W.

AU - Pile, P.

AU - Planinic, M.

AU - Pluta, J.

AU - Plyku, D.

AU - Poljak, N.

AU - Porter, J.

AU - Poskanzer, A. M.

AU - Powell, C. B.

AU - Prindle, D.

AU - Pruneau, C.

AU - Pruthi, N. K.

AU - Przybycien, M.

AU - Pujahari, P. R.

AU - Putschke, J.

AU - Qiu, H.

AU - Raniwala, R.

AU - Raniwala, S.

AU - Ray, R. L.

AU - Redwine, R.

AU - Reed, R.

AU - Riley, C. K.

AU - Ritter, H. G.

AU - Roberts, J. B.

AU - Rogachevskiy, O. V.

AU - Romero, J. L.

AU - Ruan, L.

AU - Rusnak, J.

AU - Sahoo, N. R.

AU - Sakrejda, I.

AU - Salur, S.

AU - Sandacz, A.

AU - Sandweiss, J.

AU - Sangaline, E.

AU - Sarkar, A.

AU - Schambach, J.

AU - Scharenberg, R. P.

AU - Schmah, A. M.

AU - Schmidke, B.

AU - Schmitz, N.

AU - Schuster, T. R.

AU - Seele, J.

AU - Seger, J.

AU - Seyboth, P.

AU - Shah, N.

AU - Shahaliev, E.

AU - Shao, M.

AU - Sharma, B.

AU - Sharma, M.

AU - Shi, S. S.

AU - Shou, Q. Y.

AU - Sichtermann, E. P.

AU - Singaraju, R. N.

AU - Skoby, M. J.

AU - Smirnov, D.

AU - Smirnov, N.

AU - Solanki, D.

AU - Sorensen, P.

AU - Desouza, U. G.

AU - Spinka, H. M.

AU - Srivastava, B.

AU - Stanislaus, T. D.S.

AU - Steadman, S. G.

AU - Stevens, J. R.

AU - Stock, R.

AU - Strikhanov, M.

AU - Stringfellow, B.

AU - Suaide, A. A.P.

AU - Suarez, M. C.

AU - Sumbera, M.

AU - Sun, X. M.

AU - Sun, Y.

AU - Sun, Z.

AU - Surrow, B.

AU - Svirida, D. N.

AU - Symons, T. J.M.

AU - Szanto De Toledo, A.

AU - Takahashi, J.

AU - Tang, A. H.

AU - Tang, Z.

AU - Tarini, L. H.

AU - Tarnowsky, T.

AU - Thein, D.

AU - Thomas, J. H.

AU - Tian, J.

AU - Timmins, A. R.

AU - Tlusty, D.

AU - Tokarev, M.

AU - Trainor, T. A.

AU - Trentalange, S.

AU - Tribble, R. E.

AU - Tribedy, P.

AU - Trzeciak, B. A.

AU - Tsai, O. D.

AU - Turnau, J.

AU - Ullrich, T.

AU - Underwood, D. G.

AU - Van Buren, G.

AU - Van Nieuwenhuizen, G.

AU - Vanfossen, J. A.

AU - Varma, R.

AU - Vasconcelos, G. M.S.

AU - Videbæk, F.

AU - Viyogi, Y. P.

AU - Vokal, S.

AU - Voloshin, S. A.

AU - Vossen, A.

AU - Wada, M.

AU - Wang, F.

AU - Wang, G.

AU - Wang, H.

AU - Wang, J. S.

AU - Wang, Q.

AU - Wang, X. L.

AU - Wang, Y.

AU - Webb, G.

AU - Webb, J. C.

AU - Westfall, G. D.

AU - Whitten, C.

AU - Wieman, H.

AU - Wissink, S. W.

AU - Witt, R.

AU - Witzke, W.

AU - Wu, Y. F.

AU - Xiao, Z.

AU - Xie, W.

AU - Xin, K.

AU - Xu, H.

AU - Xu, N.

AU - Xu, Q. H.

AU - Xu, W.

AU - Xu, Y.

AU - Xu, Z.

AU - Xue, L.

AU - Yang, Y.

AU - Yepes, P.

AU - Yi, Y.

AU - Yip, K.

AU - Yoo, I. K.

AU - Zawisza, M.

AU - Zbroszczyk, H.

AU - Zhang, J. B.

AU - Zhang, S.

AU - Zhang, W. M.

AU - Zhang, X. P.

AU - Zhang, Y.

AU - Zhang, Z. P.

AU - Zhao, F.

AU - Zhao, J.

AU - Zhong, C.

AU - Zhu, X.

AU - Zhu, Y. H.

AU - Zoulkarneeva, Y.

PY - 2012/5/16

Y1 - 2012/5/16

N2 - We report measurements of the charge-separated W +( -)→e +( -) +ν e(ν ̄e) and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV. These results are based on 13.2pb -1 of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the eν channel were measured to be σ(pp→W +X)•BR(W +→e +ν e)=117.3±5.9(stat)±6.2(syst)±15.2(lumi)pb, and σ(pp→W -X)•BR(W -→e -ν ̄e)=43.3±4.6(stat)±3.4(syst) ±5.6(lumi)pb. For Z/γ * production, σ(pp→Z/γ *X)•BR(Z/γ *→e +e -)=7.7±2.1(stat)-0.9+0. 5(syst)±1.0(lumi)pb was measured for di-lepton invariant masses me +e - between 70 and 110GeV/c2. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, σ(pp→W +X)/σ(pp→W -X), at √s=500GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections.

AB - We report measurements of the charge-separated W +( -)→e +( -) +ν e(ν ̄e) and Z/γ *→e +e - production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV. These results are based on 13.2pb -1 of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the eν channel were measured to be σ(pp→W +X)•BR(W +→e +ν e)=117.3±5.9(stat)±6.2(syst)±15.2(lumi)pb, and σ(pp→W -X)•BR(W -→e -ν ̄e)=43.3±4.6(stat)±3.4(syst) ±5.6(lumi)pb. For Z/γ * production, σ(pp→Z/γ *X)•BR(Z/γ *→e +e -)=7.7±2.1(stat)-0.9+0. 5(syst)±1.0(lumi)pb was measured for di-lepton invariant masses me +e - between 70 and 110GeV/c2. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, σ(pp→W +X)/σ(pp→W -X), at √s=500GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections.

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JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

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Measurement of the W→eν and Z/γ ^*→e ⁺e ^- production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s=500GeV

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