CMS-PAS-SMP-15-006

CMS-PAS-SMP-15-006
Measurement of the WZ production cross section in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
December 2015

Abstract: A measurement is presented of the WZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.34 fb $^{-1}$ . The measurement is performed in the leptonic decay modes $\mathrm{ WZ } \rightarrow \ell \nu \ell' \ell'$ , where $\ell$ , $\ell' = \rm{e}$ , $\mu$ . The measured cross section $\sigma( \mathrm{pp \rightarrow WZ }) =$ 36.8 $\pm$ 4.6 (stat) $^{ +8.1}_{-6.2 }$ (syst) $\pm$ 0.6 (theo) $\pm$ 1.7 (lumi) pb, for Z bosons produced in the mass region 60 $< m_{\mathrm{Z}} <$ 120 GeV, is consistent with standard model predictions.
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