Measurement of the differential cross sections for the associated production of a W boson and jets in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 13 TeV

Abstract

A measurement of the differential cross sections for a W boson produced in association with jets in the muon decay channel is presented. The measurement is based on 13 TeV proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2.2 inverse femtobarns, recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC. The cross sections are reported as functions of jet multiplicity, jet transverse momentum pT, jet rapidity, the scalar pT sum of the jets, and angular correlations between the muon and the jet for different jet multiplicities. The measured cross sections are in agreement with predictions that include multileg leading-order (LO) and next-to-LO matrix element calculations interfaced with parton showers, as well as a next-to-next-to-LO calculation for the W boson and one jet production.

arXiv commentReplaced with the published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. Note an additional reference: LHCb Collaboration, JHEP 05 (2016) 131. All the figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/SMP-16-005 (CMS Public Pages)

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