1202.0654 (Yasmine Amhis et al.)

Electroweak results at LHCb    [PDF]

Yasmine Amhis, for the LHCb Collaboration

$W$ and $Z$ production cross-sections have been measured in proton-proton
collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the decays $W\rightarrow
\mu \nu$, $Z\rightarrow \mu \mu$ and $Z\rightarrow \tau \tau$ collected by the
LHCb detector. For all the measurements at least one of the reconstructed muons
has a transverse momentum, $p_T$, above 20 GeV/$c$ and a pseudorapidity,
$\eta$, between 2 and 4.5. In the case of the $Z$, a di-muon invariant mass
between 60 GeV$/c^2$ and 120 GeV$/c^2$ is required. Theoretical predictions,
calculated at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD using recent parton
distribution functions (PDFs), are found to be in agreement with the
measurements.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.0654