The measurement of the shape of the Z boson rapidity distribution for drell-yan events at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV is presented in this thesis. Data collected with the D0 detector during the whole RunII period of the Fermilab Tevatron proton-antiproton collider are used. By using these data with an integrated luminosity of up to L = 9.86~$fb^{-1}$, the uncertainties on the rapidity distribution in the forward region are significantly reduced compared with previous measurements. The measurement is made for events with electron-positron mass 66 < M(ee) < 111 GeV. Predictions of Next-to-Leading-Order(NLO) QCD theory with CTEQ and MSTW parton distribution functions (PDFs) are found to agree well with the data over the full rapidity range.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:617976 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Ding, Pengfei |
| Contributors | Wyatt, Terence |
| Publisher | University of Manchester |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/measurement-of-the-shape-of-the-boson-rapidity-distribution-for-dy--x-events-produced-at-sqrts196-tev(f4da77fa-5323-4c1d-9ddb-05fa788f031b).html |
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