@article{ed0f51795d5244aabdfa2afdea6acd38,
title = "Measurement of the ZZ production cross section in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV using the ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′−ℓ′+ and ZZ→ ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ decay channels with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "A measurement of the ZZ production cross section in the ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ channels (ℓ = e, μ) in proton-proton collisions at s=8TeV at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb−1 collected by the ATLAS experiment in 2012 is presented. The fiducial cross sections for ZZ → ℓ−ℓ+ℓ′ −ℓ′ + and ZZ→ ℓ−ℓ+νν¯ are measured in selected phase-space regions. The total cross section for ZZ events produced with both Z bosons in the mass range 66 to 116 GeV is measured from the combination of the two channels to be 7.3 ± 0.4(stat) ± 0.3(syst)− 0.1 − 0.2(lumi) pb, which is consistent with the Standard Model prediction of 6. 6− 0.6 + 0.7 pb. The differential cross sections in bins of various kinematic variables are presented. The differential event yield as a function of the transverse momentum of the leading Z boson is used to set limits on anomalous neutral triple gauge boson couplings in ZZ production.[Figure not available: see fulltext.]",
keywords = "Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments)",
author = "\{The ATLAS Collaboration\} and M. Aaboud and G. Aad and B. Abbott and J. Abdallah and O. Abdinov and B. Abeloos and R. Aben and AbouZeid, \{O. S.\} and Abraham, \{N. L.\} and H. Abramowicz and H. Abreu and R. Abreu and Y. Abulaiti and Acharya, \{B. S.\} and S. Adachi and L. Adamczyk and Adams, \{D. L.\} and J. Adelman and S. Adomeit and T. Adye and Affolder, \{A. A.\} and T. Agatonovic-Jovin and Aguilar-Saavedra, \{J. A.\} and Ahlen, \{S. P.\} and F. Ahmadov and G. Aielli and H. Akerstedt and {\AA}kesson, \{T. P.A.\} and Akimov, \{A. V.\} and Alberghi, \{G. L.\} and J. Albert and S. Albrand and \{Alconada Verzini\}, \{M. J.\} and M. Aleksa and Aleksandrov, \{I. N.\} and C. Alexa and G. Alexander and T. Alexopoulos and M. Alhroob and B. Ali and M. Aliev and G. Alimonti and J. Alison and Alkire, \{S. P.\} and Allbrooke, \{B. M.M.\} and Allen, \{B. W.\} and Hooberman, \{B. H.\} and \{Martinez Outschoorn\}, \{V. I.\} and Neubauer, \{M. S.\} and Sickles, \{A. M.\}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, The Author(s).",
year = "2017",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP01(2017)099",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2017",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
publisher = "Springer",
number = "1",
}