Production of Z0 bosons in elastic and quasi-elastic ep collisions at HERA

Abramowicz, H. et al. (2013) Production of Z0 bosons in elastic and quasi-elastic ep collisions at HERA. Physics Letters B, 718(3), pp. 915-921. (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.051)

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.051

Abstract

The production of Z<sup>0</sup> bosons in the reaction ep→eZ<sup>0</sup>p<sup>(⁎)</sup>, where p<sup>(⁎)</sup> stands for a proton or a low-mass nucleon resonance, has been studied in <i>ep</i> collisions at HERA using the ZEUS detector. The analysis is based on a data sample collected between 1996 and 2007, amounting to 496 pb<sup>−1</sup> of integrated luminosity. The Z<sup>0</sup> was measured in the hadronic decay mode. The elasticity of the events was ensured by a cut on ηmax<3.0, where η<sub>max</sub> is the maximum pseudorapidity of energy deposits in the calorimeter defined with respect to the proton beam direction. A signal was observed at the Z<sup>0</sup> mass. The cross section of the reaction ep→ eZ<sup>0</sup>p<sup>(⁎)</sup> was measured to be σ(ep→ eZ<sup>0</sup>p<sup>(⁎)</sup>)=0.13±0.06(stat.)±0.01(syst.) pb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 0.16 pb. This is the first measurement of Z<sup>0</sup> production in <i>ep</i> collisions.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Ferrando, Dr James and Doyle, Professor Anthony and Saxon, Professor David and Bussey, Dr Peter and Skillicorn, Professor Ian
Authors: Abramowicz, H., Abt, I., Adamczyk, L., Adamus, M., Aggarwal, R., Antonelli, S., Antonioli, P., Antonov, A., Arneodo, M., Arslan, O., Aushev, V., Aushev, Y., Bachynska, O., Bamberger, A., Barakbaev, A.N., Barbagli, G., Bari, G., Barreiro, F., Bartosik, N., Bartsch, D., Basile, M., Behnke, O., Behr, J., Behrens, U., Bellagamba, L., Bertolin, A., Bhadra, S., Bindi, M., Blohm, C., Bokhonov, V., Bołd, T., Bondarenko, K., Boos, E.G., Borras, K., Boscherini, D., Bot, D., Brock, I., Brownson, E., Brugnera, R., Brümmer, N., Bruni, A., Bruni, G., Brzozowska, B., Bussey, P.J., Bylsma, B., Caldwell, A., Capua, M., Carlin, R., Catterall, C.D., Chekanov, S., Chwastowski, J., Ciborowski, J., Ciesielski, R., Cifarelli, L., Cindolo, F., Contin, A., Cooper-Sarkar, A.M., Coppola, N., Corradi, M., Corriveau, F., Costa, M., DʼAgostini, G., Dal Corso, F., del Peso, J., Dementiev, R.K., De Pasquale, S., Derrick, M., Devenish, R.C.E., Dobur, D., Dolgoshein, B.A., Dolinska, G., Doyle, A.T., Drugakov, V., Durkin, L.S., Dusini, S., Eisenberg, Y., Ermolov, P.F., Eskreys, A., Fang, S., Fazio, S., Ferrando, J., Ferrero, M.I., Figiel, J., Foster, B., Gach, G., Galas, A., Gallo, E., Garfagnini, A., Geiser, A., Gialas, I., Gizhko, A., Gladilin, L.K., Gladkov, D., Glasman, C., Gogota, O., Golubkov, Y.A., Göttlicher, P., Grabowska-Bołd, I., Grebenyuk, J., Gregor, I., Grigorescu, G., Grzelak, G., Gueta, O., Guzik, M., Gwenlan, C., Haas, T., Hain, W., Hamatsu, R., Hart, J.C., Hartmann, H., Hartner, G., Hilger, E., Hochman, D., Hori, R., Hüttmann, A., Ibrahim, Z.A., Iga, Y., Ingbir, R., Ishitsuka, M., Jakob, H.-P., Januschek, F., Jones, T.W., Jüngst, M., Kadenko, I., Kahle, B., Kananov, S., Kanno, T., Karshon, U., Karstens, F., Katkov, I.I., Kaur, M., Kaur, P., Keramidas, A., Khein, L.A., Kim, J.Y., Kisielewska, D., Kitamura, S., Klanner, R., Klein, U., Koffeman, E., Kondrashova, N., Kononenko, O., Kooijman, P., Korol, I., Korzhavina, I.A., Kotański, A., Kötz, U., Kowalski, H., Kuprash, O., Kuze, M., Lee, A., Levchenko, B.B., Levy, A., Libov, V., Limentani, S., Ling, T.Y., Lisovyi, M., Lobodzinska, E., Lohmann, W., Löhr, B., Lohrmann, E., Long, K.R., Longhin, A., Lontkovskyi, D., Lukina, O.Y., Maeda, J., Magill, S., Makarenko, I., Malka, J., Mankel, R., Margotti, A., Marini, G., Martin, J.F., Mastroberardino, A., Mattingly, M.C.K., Melzer-Pellmann, I.-A., Mergelmeyer, S., Miglioranzi, S., Mohamad Idris, F., Monaco, V., Montanari, A., Morris, J.D., Mujkic, K., Musgrave, B., Nagano, K., Namsoo, T., Nania, R., Nigro, A., Ning, Y., Nobe, T., Notz, D., Nowak, R.J., Nuncio-Quiroz, A.E., Oh, B.Y., Okazaki, N., Olkiewicz, K., Onishchuk, Y., Papageorgiu, K., Parenti, A., Paul, E., Pawlak, J.M., Pawlik, B., Pelfer, P.G., Pellegrino, A., Perlański, W., Perrey, H., Piotrzkowski, K., Pluciński, P., Pokrovskiy, N.S., Polini, A., Proskuryakov, A.S., Przybycień, M., Raval, A., Reeder, D.D., Reisert, B., Ren, Z., Repond, J., Ri, Y.D., Robertson, A., Roloff, P., Rubinsky, I., Ruspa, M., Sacchi, R., Samson, U., Sartorelli, G., Savin, A.A., Saxon, D.H., Schioppa, M., Schlenstedt, S., Schleper, P., Schmidke, W.B., Schneekloth, U., Schönberg, V., Schörner-Sadenius, T., Schwartz, J., Sciulli, F., Shcheglova, L.M., Shehzadi, R., Shimizu, S., Singh, I., Skillicorn, I.O., Słomiński, W., Smith, W.H., Sola, V., Solano, A., Son, D., Sosnovtsev, V., Spiridonov, A., Stadie, H., Stanco, L., Stefaniuk, N., Stern, A., Stewart, T.P., Stifutkin, A., Stopa, P., Suchkov, S., Susinno, G., Suszycki, L., Sztuk-Dambietz, J., Szuba, D., Szuba, J., Tapper, A.D., Tassi, E., Terrón, J., Theedt, T., Tiecke, H., Tokushuku, K., Tomaszewska, J., Trusov, V., Tsurugai, T., Turcato, M., Turkot, O., Tymieniecka, T., Vázquez, M., Verbytskyi, A., Viazlo, O., Vlasov, N.N., Walczak, R., Wan Abdullah, W.A.T., Whitmore, J.J., Wichmann, K., Wiggers, L., Wing, M., Wlasenko, M., Wolf, G., Wolfe, H., Wrona, K., Yagües-Molina, A.G., Yamada, S., Yamazaki, Y., Yoshida, R., Youngman, C., Zabiegalov, O., Żarnecki, A.F., Zawiejski, L., Zenaiev, O., Zeuner, W., Zhautykov, B.O., Zhmak, N., Zichichi, A., Zolkapli, Z., and Zotkin, D.S.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Journal Name:Physics Letters B
Publisher:Elsevier BV
ISSN:0370-2693

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