Measurement of associated production of z bosons with charm quark jets in pp collisions at √s=1.96 TeV

V M Abazov; B Abbott; B S Acharya; M Adams; T Adams; J P Agnew; G D Alexeev; G Alkhazov; A Alton; A Askew; S Atkins; K Augsten; C Avila; F Badaud; L Bagby; B Baldin; D V Bandurin; S Banerjee; E Barberis; P Baringer; J F Bartlett; U Bassler; V Bazterra; A Bean; M Begalli; L Bellantoni; S B Beri; G Bernardi; R Bernhard; I Bertram; M Besançon; R Beuselinck; P C Bhat; S Bhatia; V Bhatnagar; G Blazey; S Blessing; K Bloom; A Boehnlein; D Boline; E E Boos; G Borissov; A Brandt; O Brandt; R Brock; A Bross; D Brown; X B Bu; M Buehler; V Buescher; V Bunichev; S Burdin; C P Buszello; E Camacho-Pérez; B C K Casey; H Castilla-Valdez; S Caughron; S Chakrabarti; K M Chan; A Chandra; E Chapon; G Chen; S W Cho; S Choi; B Choudhary; S Cihangir; D Claes; J Clutter; M Cooke; W E Cooper; M Corcoran; F Couderc; M-C Cousinou; D Cutts; A Das; G Davies; S J de Jong; E De La Cruz-Burelo; F Déliot; R Demina; D Denisov; S P Denisov; S Desai; C Deterre; K DeVaughan; H T Diehl; M Diesburg; P F Ding; A Dominguez; A Dubey; L V Dudko; A Duperrin; S Dutt; M Eads; D Edmunds; J Ellison; V D Elvira; Y Enari; H Evans; V N Evdokimov; L Feng; T Ferbel; F Fiedler; F Filthaut; W Fisher; H E Fisk; M Fortner; H Fox; S Fuess; A Garcia-Bellido; J A García-González; V Gavrilov; W Geng; C E Gerber; Y Gershtein; G Ginther; G Golovanov; P D Grannis; S Greder; H Greenlee; G Grenier; Ph Gris; J-F Grivaz; A Grohsjean; S Grünendahl; M W Grünewald; T Guillemin; G Gutierrez; P Gutierrez; J Haley; L Han; K Harder; A Harel; J M Hauptman; J Hays; T Head; T Hebbeker; D Hedin; H Hegab; A P Heinson; U Heintz; C Hensel; I Heredia-De La Cruz; K Herner; G Hesketh; M D Hildreth; R Hirosky; T Hoang; J D Hobbs; B Hoeneisen; J Hogan; M Hohlfeld; J L Holzbauer; I Howley; Z Hubacek; V Hynek; I Iashvili; Y Ilchenko; R Illingworth; A S Ito; S Jabeen; M Jaffré; A Jayasinghe; M S Jeong; R Jesik; P Jiang; K Johns; E Johnson; M Johnson; A Jonckheere; P Jonsson; J Joshi; A W Jung; A Juste; E Kajfasz; D Karmanov; I Katsanos; R Kehoe; S Kermiche; N Khalatyan; A Khanov; A Kharchilava; Y N Kharzheev; I Kiselevich; J M Kohli; A V Kozelov; J Kraus; A Kumar; A Kupco; T Kurča; V A Kuzmin; S Lammers; P Lebrun; H S Lee; S W Lee; W M Lee; X Lei; J Lellouch; D Li; H Li; L Li; Q Z Li; J K Lim; D Lincoln; J Linnemann; V V Lipaev; R Lipton; H Liu; Y Liu; A Lobodenko; M Lokajicek; R Lopes de Sa; R Luna-Garcia; A L Lyon; A K A Maciel; R Madar; R Magaña-Villalba; S Malik; V L Malyshev; J Mansour; J Martínez-Ortega; R McCarthy; C L McGivern; M M Meijer; A Melnitchouk; D Menezes; P G Mercadante; M Merkin; A Meyer; J Meyer; F Miconi; N K Mondal; M Mulhearn; E Nagy; M Narain; R Nayyar; H A Neal; J P Negret; P Neustroev; H T Nguyen; T Nunnemann; J Orduna; N Osman; J Osta; A Pal; N Parashar; V Parihar; S K Park; R Partridge; N Parua; A Patwa; B Penning; M Perfilov; Y Peters; K Petridis; G Petrillo; P Pétroff; M-A Pleier; V M Podstavkov; A V Popov; M Prewitt; D Price; N Prokopenko; J Qian; A Quadt; B Quinn; P N Ratoff; I Razumov; I Ripp-Baudot; F Rizatdinova; M Rominsky; A Ross; C Royon; P Rubinov; R Ruchti; G Sajot; A Sánchez-Hernández; M P Sanders; A S Santos; G Savage; L Sawyer; T Scanlon; R D Schamberger; Y Scheglov; H Schellman; C Schwanenberger; R Schwienhorst; J Sekaric; H Severini; E Shabalina; V Shary; S Shaw; A A Shchukin; V Simak; P Skubic; P Slattery; D Smirnov; G R Snow; J Snow; S Snyder; S Söldner-Rembold; L Sonnenschein; K Soustruznik; J Stark; D A Stoyanova; M Strauss; L Suter; P Svoisky; M Titov; V V Tokmenin; Y-T Tsai; D Tsybychev; B Tuchming; C Tully; L Uvarov; S Uvarov; S Uzunyan; R Van Kooten; W M van Leeuwen; N Varelas; E W Varnes; I A Vasilyev; A Y Verkheev; L S Vertogradov; M Verzocchi; M Vesterinen; D Vilanova; P Vokac; H D Wahl; M H L S Wang; J Warchol; G Watts; M Wayne; J Weichert; L Welty-Rieger; M R J Williams; G W Wilson; M Wobisch; D R Wood; T R Wyatt; Y Xie; R Yamada; S Yang; T Yasuda; Y A Yatsunenko; W Ye; Z Ye; H Yin; K Yip; S W Youn; J M Yu; J Zennamo; T G Zhao; B Zhou; J Zhu; M Zielinski; D Zieminska; L Zivkovic; D0 Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.042001

Measurement of associated production of z bosons with charm quark jets in pp collisions at √s=1.96 TeV

Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Jan 31;112(4):042001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.042001. Epub 2014 Jan 27.

Authors

V M Abazov¹, B Abbott², B S Acharya³, M Adams⁴, T Adams⁵, J P Agnew⁶, G D Alexeev¹, G Alkhazov⁷, A Alton⁸, A Askew⁵, S Atkins⁹, K Augsten¹⁰, C Avila¹¹, F Badaud¹², L Bagby¹³, B Baldin¹³, D V Bandurin⁵, S Banerjee³, E Barberis¹⁴, P Baringer¹⁵, J F Bartlett¹³, U Bassler¹⁶, V Bazterra⁴, A Bean¹⁵, M Begalli¹⁷, L Bellantoni¹³, S B Beri¹⁸, G Bernardi¹⁹, R Bernhard²⁰, I Bertram²¹, M Besançon¹⁶, R Beuselinck²², P C Bhat¹³, S Bhatia²³, V Bhatnagar¹⁸, G Blazey²⁴, S Blessing⁵, K Bloom²⁵, A Boehnlein¹³, D Boline²⁶, E E Boos²⁷, G Borissov²¹, A Brandt²⁸, O Brandt²⁹, R Brock³⁰, A Bross¹³, D Brown¹⁹, X B Bu¹³, M Buehler¹³, V Buescher³¹, V Bunichev²⁷, S Burdin²¹, C P Buszello³², E Camacho-Pérez³³, B C K Casey¹³, H Castilla-Valdez³³, S Caughron³⁰, S Chakrabarti²⁶, K M Chan³⁴, A Chandra³⁵, E Chapon¹⁶, G Chen¹⁵, S W Cho³⁶, S Choi³⁶, B Choudhary³⁷, S Cihangir¹³, D Claes²⁵, J Clutter¹⁵, M Cooke¹³, W E Cooper¹³, M Corcoran³⁵, F Couderc¹⁶, M-C Cousinou³⁸, D Cutts³⁹, A Das⁴⁰, G Davies²², S J de Jong⁴¹, E De La Cruz-Burelo³³, F Déliot¹⁶, R Demina⁴², D Denisov¹³, S P Denisov⁴³, S Desai¹³, C Deterre²⁹, K DeVaughan²⁵, H T Diehl¹³, M Diesburg¹³, P F Ding⁶, A Dominguez²⁵, A Dubey³⁷, L V Dudko²⁷, A Duperrin³⁸, S Dutt¹⁸, M Eads²⁴, D Edmunds³⁰, J Ellison⁴⁴, V D Elvira¹³, Y Enari¹⁹, H Evans⁴⁵, V N Evdokimov⁴³, L Feng²⁴, T Ferbel⁴², F Fiedler³¹, F Filthaut⁴¹, W Fisher³⁰, H E Fisk¹³, M Fortner²⁴, H Fox²¹, S Fuess¹³, A Garcia-Bellido⁴², J A García-González³³, V Gavrilov⁴⁶, W Geng⁴⁷, C E Gerber⁴, Y Gershtein⁴⁸, G Ginther⁴⁹, G Golovanov¹, P D Grannis²⁶, S Greder⁵⁰, H Greenlee¹³, G Grenier⁵¹, Ph Gris¹², J-F Grivaz⁵², A Grohsjean¹⁶, S Grünendahl¹³, M W Grünewald⁵³, T Guillemin⁵², G Gutierrez¹³, P Gutierrez², J Haley¹⁴, L Han⁵⁴, K Harder⁶, A Harel⁴², J M Hauptman⁵⁵, J Hays²², T Head⁶, T Hebbeker⁵⁶, D Hedin²⁴, H Hegab⁵⁷, A P Heinson⁴⁴, U Heintz³⁹, C Hensel²⁹, I Heredia-De La Cruz³³, K Herner¹³, G Hesketh⁶, M D Hildreth³⁴, R Hirosky⁵⁸, T Hoang⁵, J D Hobbs²⁶, B Hoeneisen⁵⁹, J Hogan³⁵, M Hohlfeld³¹, J L Holzbauer²³, I Howley²⁸, Z Hubacek⁶⁰, V Hynek¹⁰, I Iashvili⁶¹, Y Ilchenko⁶², R Illingworth¹³, A S Ito¹³, S Jabeen³⁹, M Jaffré⁵², A Jayasinghe², M S Jeong³⁶, R Jesik²², P Jiang⁵⁴, K Johns⁴⁰, E Johnson³⁰, M Johnson¹³, A Jonckheere¹³, P Jonsson²², J Joshi⁴⁴, A W Jung¹³, A Juste⁶³, E Kajfasz³⁸, D Karmanov²⁷, I Katsanos²⁵, R Kehoe⁶², S Kermiche³⁸, N Khalatyan¹³, A Khanov⁵⁷, A Kharchilava⁶¹, Y N Kharzheev¹, I Kiselevich⁴⁶, J M Kohli¹⁸, A V Kozelov⁴³, J Kraus²³, A Kumar⁶¹, A Kupco⁶⁴, T Kurča⁵¹, V A Kuzmin²⁷, S Lammers⁴⁵, P Lebrun⁵¹, H S Lee³⁶, S W Lee⁵⁵, W M Lee⁵, X Lei⁴⁰, J Lellouch¹⁹, D Li¹⁹, H Li⁵⁸, L Li⁴⁴, Q Z Li¹³, J K Lim³⁶, D Lincoln¹³, J Linnemann³⁰, V V Lipaev⁴³, R Lipton¹³, H Liu⁶², Y Liu⁵⁴, A Lobodenko⁷, M Lokajicek⁶⁴, R Lopes de Sa²⁶, R Luna-Garcia³³, A L Lyon¹³, A K A Maciel⁶⁵, R Madar²⁰, R Magaña-Villalba³³, S Malik²⁵, V L Malyshev¹, J Mansour²⁹, J Martínez-Ortega³³, R McCarthy²⁶, C L McGivern⁶, M M Meijer⁴¹, A Melnitchouk¹³, D Menezes²⁴, P G Mercadante⁶⁶, M Merkin²⁷, A Meyer⁵⁶, J Meyer²⁹, F Miconi⁵⁰, N K Mondal³, M Mulhearn⁵⁸, E Nagy³⁸, M Narain³⁹, R Nayyar⁴⁰, H A Neal⁸, J P Negret¹¹, P Neustroev⁷, H T Nguyen⁵⁸, T Nunnemann⁶⁷, J Orduna³⁵, N Osman³⁸, J Osta³⁴, A Pal²⁸, N Parashar⁶⁸, V Parihar³⁹, S K Park³⁶, R Partridge³⁹, N Parua⁴⁵, A Patwa⁶⁹, B Penning¹³, M Perfilov²⁷, Y Peters²⁹, K Petridis⁶, G Petrillo⁴², P Pétroff⁵², M-A Pleier⁶⁹, V M Podstavkov¹³, A V Popov⁴³, M Prewitt³⁵, D Price⁴⁵, N Prokopenko⁴³, J Qian⁸, A Quadt²⁹, B Quinn²³, P N Ratoff²¹, I Razumov⁴³, I Ripp-Baudot⁵⁰, F Rizatdinova⁵⁷, M Rominsky¹³, A Ross²¹, C Royon¹⁶, P Rubinov¹³, R Ruchti³⁴, G Sajot⁷⁰, A Sánchez-Hernández³³, M P Sanders⁶⁷, A S Santos⁶⁵, G Savage¹³, L Sawyer⁹, T Scanlon²², R D Schamberger²⁶, Y Scheglov⁷, H Schellman⁷¹, C Schwanenberger⁶, R Schwienhorst³⁰, J Sekaric¹⁵, H Severini², E Shabalina²⁹, V Shary¹⁶, S Shaw³⁰, A A Shchukin⁴³, V Simak¹⁰, P Skubic², P Slattery⁴², D Smirnov³⁴, G R Snow²⁵, J Snow⁷², S Snyder⁶⁹, S Söldner-Rembold⁶, L Sonnenschein⁵⁶, K Soustruznik⁷³, J Stark⁷⁰, D A Stoyanova⁴³, M Strauss², L Suter⁶, P Svoisky², M Titov¹⁶, V V Tokmenin¹, Y-T Tsai⁴², D Tsybychev²⁶, B Tuchming¹⁶, C Tully⁷⁴, L Uvarov⁷, S Uvarov⁷, S Uzunyan²⁴, R Van Kooten⁴⁵, W M van Leeuwen⁷⁵, N Varelas⁴, E W Varnes⁴⁰, I A Vasilyev⁴³, A Y Verkheev¹, L S Vertogradov¹, M Verzocchi¹³, M Vesterinen⁶, D Vilanova¹⁶, P Vokac¹⁰, H D Wahl⁵, M H L S Wang¹³, J Warchol³⁴, G Watts⁷⁶, M Wayne³⁴, J Weichert³¹, L Welty-Rieger⁷¹, M R J Williams⁴⁵, G W Wilson¹⁵, M Wobisch⁹, D R Wood¹⁴, T R Wyatt⁶, Y Xie¹³, R Yamada¹³, S Yang⁵⁴, T Yasuda¹³, Y A Yatsunenko¹, W Ye²⁶, Z Ye¹³, H Yin¹³, K Yip⁶⁹, S W Youn¹³, J M Yu⁸, J Zennamo⁶¹, T G Zhao⁶, B Zhou⁸, J Zhu⁸, M Zielinski⁴², D Zieminska⁴⁵, L Zivkovic¹⁹; D0 Collaboration

Affiliations

¹ Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia.
² University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
³ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
⁴ University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, USA.
⁵ Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA.
⁶ The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
⁷ Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
⁸ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
⁹ Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA.
¹⁰ Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹¹ Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
¹² LPC, Université Blaise Pascal, CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont, France.
¹³ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA.
¹⁴ Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
¹⁵ University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
¹⁶ CEA, Irfu, SPP, Saclay, France.
¹⁷ Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
¹⁸ Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
¹⁹ LPNHE, Universités Paris VI and VII, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France.
²⁰ Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
²¹ Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, United Kingdom.
²² Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom.
²³ University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA.
²⁴ Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115, USA.
²⁵ University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA.
²⁶ State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA.
²⁷ Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
²⁸ University of Texas, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA.
²⁹ II. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
³⁰ Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
³¹ Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
³² Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
³³ CINVESTAV, Mexico City, Mexico.
³⁴ University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA.
³⁵ Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.
³⁶ Korea Detector Laboratory, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.
³⁷ Delhi University, Delhi, India.
³⁸ CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France.
³⁹ Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
⁴⁰ University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
⁴¹ Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
⁴² University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
⁴³ Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia.
⁴⁴ University of California Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, USA.
⁴⁵ Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
⁴⁶ Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, Russia.
⁴⁷ CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France and Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA.
⁴⁸ Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855, USA.
⁴⁹ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA and University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
⁵⁰ IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg, France.
⁵¹ IPNL, Université Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France and Université de Lyon, Lyon, France.
⁵² LAL, Université Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France.
⁵³ University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁵⁴ University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People's Republic of China.
⁵⁵ Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
⁵⁶ III. Physikalisches Institut A, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
⁵⁷ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA.
⁵⁸ University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, USA.
⁵⁹ Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶⁰ Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic and CEA, Irfu, SPP, Saclay, France.
⁶¹ State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA.
⁶² Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, USA.
⁶³ Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), Barcelona, Spain.
⁶⁴ Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁶⁵ LAFEX, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
⁶⁶ Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, Brazil.
⁶⁷ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany.
⁶⁸ Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana 46323, USA.
⁶⁹ Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA.
⁷⁰ LPSC, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
⁷¹ Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
⁷² Langston University, Langston, Oklahoma 73050, USA.
⁷³ Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Center for Particle Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁷⁴ Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
⁷⁵ Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁷⁶ University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.

PMID: 24580440
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.042001

Abstract

We present the first measurements of the ratios of cross sections σ(pp → Z+c jet)/σ(pp → Z+jet) and σ(pp → Z+c jet)/σ(pp → Z+b jet) for the associated production of a Z boson with at least one charm or bottom quark jet. Jets have transverse momentum pT(jet)>20 GeV and pseudorapidity |η(jet)|<2.5. These cross section ratios are measured differentially as a function of jet and Z boson transverse momenta, based on 9.7 fb(-1) of pp collisions collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider at √s=1.96 TeV. The measurements show significant deviations from perturbative QCD calculations and predictions from various event generators.