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Measurement of Differential Cross Section of Photon and Jets Events in pp Collision at 7 TeV431 views
Author
Lin, Chuanzhe, Physics - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Hirosky, Robert, Department of Physics, University of Virginia
Abstract
We present a measurement of the triple-differential cross section in photon+jets final states using a data sample from proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV. This sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 2.14 fb^−1 collected by the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Photons and jets are reconstructed within a pseudorapidity range of |η| < 2.5, and are required to have transverse momentum in the range 40 < p_γ < 300 GeV and p_jet > 30 GeV, respectively. The measurements are compared to theoretical predictions from the sherpa leading-order Monte Carlo event generator and the next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculation from jetphox. The predictions are found to be consistent with the data over much of the examined kinematic region.
Degree
PHD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Lin, Chuanzhe. Measurement of Differential Cross Section of Photon and Jets Events in pp Collision at 7 TeV. University of Virginia, Physics - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, PHD (Doctor of Philosophy), 2014-01-30, https://doi.org/10.18130/V32B8D.
