9-12 February 2021
Virtual Meeting
America/Toronto timezone

Precision Measurement of the Z Boson Transverse Momentum with the ATLAS Detector

12 Feb 2021, 16:45
15m
Virtual Meeting

Virtual Meeting

Electroweak and Higgs Physics

Speaker

Benjamin Davis-Purcell (Carleton University)

Description

The ATLAS Experiment at CERN is a general-purpose particle physics detector that measures properties of particles created in high-energy proton-proton collisions fueled by CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Searching for undiscovered particles is exciting, but there is still much to be learned about the particles that we know to exist in the Standard Model by making precision measurements of these particles. One area where increased precision is needed is the electroweak sector, where potential tension exists between theoretical predictions and the current best measurements on important properties such as the mass of the W-boson. In this talk, I will discuss our precision measurement of the transverse momentum of the Z boson, a vital stepping stone to improving our W-boson mass measurement. I will explain how this difficult measurement has been made possible thanks to a unique reduced-background ATLAS dataset.

email address bendavispurcell@cmail.carleton.ca
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Primary author

Benjamin Davis-Purcell (Carleton University)

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