Measurements of the production cross section of a \(Z\) boson in association with jets in pp collisions at \(\sqrt{s} = 13\) TeV with the ATLAS detector
Aaboud, Morad; Aad, Georges; Abbott, Brad; Abdallah, Jalal; Abdinov, Ovsat Bahram oglu; Abeloos, Baptiste; Aben, Rosemarie; AbouZeid, Hass; Abraham, Nadine L.; Abramowicz, Halina; Buanes, Trygve; Dale, Ørjan; Eigen, Gerald; Liebig, Wolfgang; Lipniacka, Anna; Martin dit Latour, Bertrand; Mæland, Steffen; Smestad, Lillian; Stugu, Bjarne; Yang, Zongchang; Zalieckas, Justas; Bugge, Magnar Kopangen; Cameron, David Gordon; Catmore, James Richard; Feigl, Simon; Franconi, Laura; Garonne, Vincent; Gjelsten, Børge Kile; Gramstad, Eirik; Morisbak, Vanja; Nilsen, Jon Kerr; Ould-Saada, Farid; Pajchel, Katarina; Raddum, Silje Hattrem; Read, Alexander Lincoln; Røhne, Ole Myren; Sandaker, Heidi; Serfon, Cédric; Stapnes, Steinar; Strandlie, Are; Abreu, Henso; Abreu, Rômulo F.; Abulaiti, Yiming; Acharya, Bobby S.; Adachi, Shunsuke; Adamczyk, Leszek; Adams, David; Adelman, Jareed; Adomeit, Stefanie; Adye, Tim; ATLAS, Collaboration
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https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4900-zSammendrag
Measurements of the production cross section of a \(Z\) boson in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at \(\sqrt{s} = 13\) TeV are presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.16 fb\(^{-1}\) collected by the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in 2015. Inclusive and differential cross sections are measured for events containing a \(Z\) boson decaying to electrons or muons and produced in association with up to seven jets with \(p_T > 30\) GeV and \(|y| <2.5\), Predictions from different Monte Carlo generators based on leading-order and next-to-leading-order matrix elements for up to two additional partons interfaced with parton shower and fixed-order predictions at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order are compared with the measured cross sections. Good agreement within the uncertainties is observed for most of the modelled quantities, in particular with the generators which use next-to-leading-order matrix elements and the more recent next-to-next-to-leading-order fixed-order predictions.