Measurement of the differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive pp→W±+X production at s=8 TeV

• Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Vol. 76; no. 8
• Main Authors: Asilar, E., Van Spilbeeck, A., Daci, N., Poyraz, D., Delcourt, M., Jafari, A., Plestina, R., Spiezia, A., Asawatangtrakuldee, C., Liu, S., Luetic, J., Elkafrawy, T., Härkönen, J., Tuovinen, E., Ortona, G., Fontaine, J.-C., Lagarde, F., Popov, A., Lipinski, M., Stahl, A., Mussgiller, A., Stefaniuk, N., Junkes, A., Schmidt, A., Tholen, H., Giffels, M., Plagge, M., Schröder, M., Weber, M., Agapitos, A., Czellar, S., Banerjee, S., Kapoor, A., Braibant-Giacomelli, S., Perrotta, A., Viliani, L., Robutti, E., Pozzobon, N., Bagliesi, G., Donato, S., Diemoz, M., Costa, M., Covarelli, R., Schizzi, A., Son, D. C., Hernandez-Almada, A., Mejia Guisao, J., Hoorani, H. R., Bluj, M., Malakhov, A., Skatchkov, N., Levchenko, P., Uvarov, L., Danilov, M., Castro Manzano, P. De, Fernandez, M., Martinez Rivero, C., Matorras, F., Rodrigo, T., Kirschenmann, H., Meinhard, M. T., Rauco, G., Cerci, S., Ball, F., Tomalin, I. R., Dunne, P., Turner, M., Alimena, J., Cutts, D., Smith, J., Florent, A., Valuev, V., Tadel, M., Gouskos, L., Xie, S., Wittich, P., Lykken, J., Strobbe, N., Kotov, K., Shchutska, L., Sperka, D., Terentyev, N., Berry, D., Yi, K., Osherson, M., Cali, I. A., Luckey, P. D., Fangmeier, C., Harrington, C., Roozbahani, B., Wang, R. -J., Mooney, M., Kaplan, S., Heideman, J., Undleeb, S., Sheldon, P., Ledovskoy, A., Clarke, C., Kottachchi Kankanamge Don, C., Taylor, D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 22.08.2016
• Subjects: Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Elementary Particles; Hadrons; Heavy Ions; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Field Theory; Regular Article - Experimental Physics; String Theory
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4293-4

The differential cross section and charge asymmetry for inclusive p p → W ± + X → μ ± ν + X production at s = 8 TeV are measured as a function of muon pseudorapidity. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 18.8 fb - 1 recorded with the CMS detector at the LHC. These results provide important constraints on the parton distribution functions of the proton in the range of the Bjorken scaling variable x from 10 - 3 to 10 - 1 .