CMS-SMP-18-003 ; CERN-EP-2020-223 | ||
Measurement of the Z boson differential production cross section using its invisible decay mode (Z →νˉν) in proton-proton collisions at √s= 13 TeV | ||
CMS Collaboration | ||
16 December 2020 | ||
JHEP 05 (2021) 205 | ||
Abstract: Measurements of the total and differential fiducial cross sections for the Z boson decaying into two neutrinos are presented at the LHC in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data were collected by the CMS detector in 2016 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. In these measurements, events are selected containing an imbalance in transverse momentum and one or more energetic jets. The fiducial differential cross section is measured as a function of the Z boson transverse momentum. The results are combined with a previous measurement of charged-lepton decays of the Z boson. | ||
Links: e-print arXiv:2012.09254 [hep-ex] (PDF) ; CDS record ; inSPIRE record ; HepData record ; CADI line (restricted) ; |
Figures & Tables | Summary | Additional Figures & Tables | References | CMS Publications |
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Figures | |
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Figure 1:
Comparison of data and simulation in the single-muon (upper left), single-electron (upper right) CRs and in the SR (lower), before and after performing the simultaneous fit across all the signal and control regions. The hadronic recoil pT in single lepton events is used as an estimator for pTmiss in the SR. For the distributions in the CRs, the other backgrounds include top quark, diboson, and QCD multijet events. Ratios of data with the pre-fit expectation (red points) and post-fit prediction (blue points) are shown. The gray band in the ratio panel indicates the post-fit uncertainty after combining all systematic uncertainties. The distribution of the pulls, defined as the difference between data and the post-fit expectation relative to the quadratic sum of the post-fit uncertainties in the expectation, and statistical uncertainty in data, are shown in the lower panel. |
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Figure 1-a:
Comparison of data and simulation in the single-muon (upper left), single-electron (upper right) CRs and in the SR (lower), before and after performing the simultaneous fit across all the signal and control regions. The hadronic recoil pT in single lepton events is used as an estimator for pTmiss in the SR. For the distributions in the CRs, the other backgrounds include top quark, diboson, and QCD multijet events. Ratios of data with the pre-fit expectation (red points) and post-fit prediction (blue points) are shown. The gray band in the ratio panel indicates the post-fit uncertainty after combining all systematic uncertainties. The distribution of the pulls, defined as the difference between data and the post-fit expectation relative to the quadratic sum of the post-fit uncertainties in the expectation, and statistical uncertainty in data, are shown in the lower panel. |
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Figure 1-b:
Comparison of data and simulation in the single-muon (upper left), single-electron (upper right) CRs and in the SR (lower), before and after performing the simultaneous fit across all the signal and control regions. The hadronic recoil pT in single lepton events is used as an estimator for pTmiss in the SR. For the distributions in the CRs, the other backgrounds include top quark, diboson, and QCD multijet events. Ratios of data with the pre-fit expectation (red points) and post-fit prediction (blue points) are shown. The gray band in the ratio panel indicates the post-fit uncertainty after combining all systematic uncertainties. The distribution of the pulls, defined as the difference between data and the post-fit expectation relative to the quadratic sum of the post-fit uncertainties in the expectation, and statistical uncertainty in data, are shown in the lower panel. |
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Figure 1-c:
Comparison of data and simulation in the single-muon (upper left), single-electron (upper right) CRs and in the SR (lower), before and after performing the simultaneous fit across all the signal and control regions. The hadronic recoil pT in single lepton events is used as an estimator for pTmiss in the SR. For the distributions in the CRs, the other backgrounds include top quark, diboson, and QCD multijet events. Ratios of data with the pre-fit expectation (red points) and post-fit prediction (blue points) are shown. The gray band in the ratio panel indicates the post-fit uncertainty after combining all systematic uncertainties. The distribution of the pulls, defined as the difference between data and the post-fit expectation relative to the quadratic sum of the post-fit uncertainties in the expectation, and statistical uncertainty in data, are shown in the lower panel. |
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Figure 2:
The likelihood scan for the fiducial Z boson production cross section in the Z→νˉν channel Z→νˉν. |
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Figure 3:
The measured absolute (left) and normalized (right) fiducial cross sections as a function of pTZ compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands around the data points correspond to the total experimental uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 3-a:
The measured absolute (left) and normalized (right) fiducial cross sections as a function of pTZ compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands around the data points correspond to the total experimental uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 3-b:
The measured absolute (left) and normalized (right) fiducial cross sections as a function of pTZ compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands around the data points correspond to the total experimental uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 4:
Measured pTZ absolute cross section for Z→ℓ+ℓ− (left), and the combination (right) being compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands around the data points correspond to the total experimental uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 4-a:
Measured pTZ absolute cross section for Z→ℓ+ℓ− (left), and the combination (right) being compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands around the data points correspond to the total experimental uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 4-b:
Measured pTZ absolute cross section for Z→ℓ+ℓ− (left), and the combination (right) being compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands around the data points correspond to the total experimental uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 5:
Measured pTZ normalized cross section for Z→ℓ+ℓ− (left), and the combination (right) compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands correspond to the total systematic uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 5-a:
Measured pTZ normalized cross section for Z→ℓ+ℓ− (left), and the combination (right) compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands correspond to the total systematic uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
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Figure 5-b:
Measured pTZ normalized cross section for Z→ℓ+ℓ− (left), and the combination (right) compared with MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO and fixed-order calculations. The shaded bands correspond to the total systematic uncertainty. The vertical bars around the predictions correspond to the combined statistical, PDF, and QCD-scale uncertainties. |
Tables | |
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Table 1:
Summary of the signal region definition. |
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Table 2:
Experimental uncertainties affecting transfer factors in the analysis that is used to estimate the W→ℓν background in the SR. The number of W boson events are denoted as WSR for the SR and in analogy as Wμν (Weν) for the single-muon (single-electron) CR. |
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Table 3:
Uncertainties assigned to simulation-based processes in SR and CRs. |
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Table 4:
Cross sections (fb) at large pTZ values in the Z→ℓℓ and Z→νˉν channels, and their combination. The theoretical predictions from MadGraph 5_aMC@NLO at NLO in QCD and corrected to NLO in EW [9] using the NNPDF 3.0 are also reported. With the exception of the largest pTZ bin, the statistical uncertainties in the measurements are much smaller than the systematic uncertainties. Both measurements and predictions correspond to σB(Z→ℓℓ), where σ is the total fiducial cross section, B is the branching fraction, and ℓ is a charged lepton. The Z→νˉν measurement corresponds to σB(Z→ℓℓ)/B(Z→νˉν). |
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Table 5:
Cross sections normalized to the total cross section measurements at high pTZ values in the Z→ℓℓ and Z→νˉν channels, and in their combination. |
Summary |
Total, differential, and normalized fiducial cross section measurements for a Z boson produced in association with one or more jets in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV at high Z boson pT in the invisible decay channel (Z →ν¯nu) have been presented. The data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.9 fb−1. The precision of this result is improved by combining the cross section measured with those extracted from charged-lepton final states. The results agree within uncertainties with the theoretical predictions from MadGraph5+MCatNLO, FEWZ and Z+1 jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. These are the most precise measurements of the pTZ spectrum to date in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV. |
Additional Figures | |
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Additional Figure 1:
The relative statistical and systematic uncertainties from various sources in bins of pTZ, for the absolute (left) and normalized (right) cross section measurements in the Z→ℓℓ (upper), Z→νν (center), and Z→νν+ℓℓ (lower) channels. |
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Additional Figure 1-a:
The relative statistical and systematic uncertainties from various sources in bins of pTZ, for the absolute cross section measurements in the Z→ℓℓ channel. |
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Additional Figure 1-b:
The relative statistical and systematic uncertainties from various sources in bins of pTZ, for the normalized cross section measurements in the Z→ℓℓ channel. |
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Additional Figure 1-c:
The relative statistical and systematic uncertainties from various sources in bins of pTZ, for the absolute cross section measurements in the Z→νν channel. |
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Additional Figure 1-d:
The relative statistical and systematic uncertainties from various sources in bins of pTZ, for the normalized cross section measurements in the Z→νν channel. |
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Additional Figure 1-e:
The relative statistical and systematic uncertainties from various sources in bins of pTZ, for the absolute cross section measurements in the Z→νν+ℓℓ channels. |
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Additional Figure 1-f:
The relative statistical and systematic uncertainties from various sources in bins of pTZ, for the normalized cross section measurements in the Z→νν+ℓℓ channels. |
Additional Tables | |
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Additional Table 1:
Systematic uncertainties of the total fiducial cross section in the Z→ℓℓ, Z→νν, and Z→νν+ℓℓ channels in units of percent. The data statistical uncertainty is below 0.1%. |
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