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A Measurement Of The W/Z Cross Section Ratio As A Function Of Hadronic Activity With The Atlas Detector, Andrew Robert Meade
A Measurement Of The W/Z Cross Section Ratio As A Function Of Hadronic Activity With The Atlas Detector, Andrew Robert Meade
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Hadronic collisions at the LHC at CERN probe particle interactions at the highest energy scale of any experiment to date. We present a research program measuring Rjet = &sigmaWBR(W&rarr&mu&nu) / (&sigmaZBR(Z&rarr&mu&mu)) as a function of a number of hadronic variables. The measurements are performed with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, using the 2011 data set, consisting of 4.64 fb-1 of pp collisions at a center of mass energy of 7 TeV. This measurement is a robust way to test the Standard Model and the modeling of perturbative QCD, and is sensitive to a wide …