Measurement of the <i>ZZ</i> Production Cross Section in <i>pp</i> Collisions at √<i>s</i>=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector


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Aad G., Abbott B., Abdallah J., Abdinov O., Abeloos B., Aben R., ...More

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, no.10, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

The ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy is measured using 3.2 fb(-1) of data recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The considered Z boson candidates decay to an electron or muon pair of mass 66-116 GeV. The cross section is measured in a fiducial phase space reflecting the detector acceptance. It is also extrapolated to a total phase space for Z bosons in the same mass range and of all decay modes, giving 16.7(-2.0)(+2.2) (stat)(-0.7)(+0.9) (syst)(-0.7)(+1.0) (lumi) pb. The results agree with standard model predictions.