dc.contributor.author CMS CollaborationAdair, A.Boulahouache, C.Ecklund, K.M.Geurts, F.J.M.Padley, B.P.Redjimi, R.Roberts, J.Zabel, J. 2015-07-17T18:46:47Z 2015-07-17T18:46:47Z 2011 CMS Collaboration, Adair, A., Boulahouache, C., et al.. "Measurement of the weak mixing angle with the Drell-Yan process in proton-proton collisions at the LHC." Physical Review D, 84, (2011) American Physical Society: 112002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.112002. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/81068 A multivariate likelihood method to measure electroweak couplings with the Drell–Yan process at the LHC is presented. The process is described by the dilepton rapidity, invariant mass, and decay angle distributions. The decay angle ambiguity due to the unknown assignment of the scattered constituent quark and antiquark to the two protons in a collision is resolved statistically using correlations between the observables. The method is applied to a sample of dimuon events from proton-proton collisions at √s=7  TeV collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.1  fb−1. From the dominant uu¯, dd¯→γ∗/Z→μ−μ+ process, the effective weak mixing angle parameter is measured to be sin﻿2θeff=0.2287±0.0020 (stat.)±0.0025 (syst.). This result is consistent with measurements from other processes, as expected within the standard model. eng American Physical Society Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. Measurement of the weak mixing angle with the Drell-Yan process in proton-proton collisions at the LHC Journal article Physical Review D 84 Text http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.112002 publisher version 112002
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