Measurement of the W -> e nu and Z/gamma* -> e(+)e(-) Production Cross Sections at Mid-rapidity in Proton-Proton Collisions at root s = 500 GeV Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report measurements of the charge-separated W +( -)e +( -) + e( e) and Z/ *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 e channel were measured to be (ppW +X)BR(W +e + e)=117.35.9(stat)6.2(syst)15.2(lumi)pb, and (ppW -X)BR(W -e - e)=43.34.6(stat)3.4(syst) 5.6(lumi)pb. For Z/ * production, (ppZ/ *X)BR(Z/ *e +e -)=7.72.1(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, (ppW +X)/(ppW -X), at s=500GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections. 2012 American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW D

altmetric score

  • 5.33

author list (cited authors)

  • Adamczyk, L., Agakishiev, G., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Alakhverdyants, A. V., Alekseev, I., ... Zoulkarneeva, Y.

citation count

  • 19

complete list of authors

  • 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||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||Sanchez, M Calderon de la Barca||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||Leyva, A Davila||De Silva, LC||Debbe, RR||Dedovich, TG||Deng, J||de Souza, R Derradi||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||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, L-X||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, Md||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||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 Jr||Varma, R||Vasconcelos, GMS||Videbaek, 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 Jr||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, I-K||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

publication date

  • May 2012