Measurement of associated production of a W boson and a charm quark in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV

Abstract

Measurements are presented of associated production of a W boson and a charm quark (W+c) in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 35.7 fb${}^{-1}$ collected by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC. The W bosons are identified by their decay into a muon and a neutrino. The charm quarks are tagged via the full reconstruction of D${}^{\ast }$(2010)${}^{\pm }$ mesons that decay via D${}^{\ast }$(2010)${}^{\pm }\to$ D${}^0$ + ${\pi }^{\pm }\to$ K${}^{\mp }$ + ${\pi }^{\pm }$ + ${\pi }^{\pm }$. A cross section is measured in the fiducial region defined by the muon transverse momentum $p_T^{\mu }>$ 26 GeV, muon pseudorapidity $|{\eta }^{\mu }|<$ 2.4, and charm quark transverse momentum $p_T^c>$ 5 GeV. The inclusive cross section for this kinematic range is $\sigma$(W+c) = 1026 $\pm$ 31 (stat) $\begin{array}{c}+76\\ -72\end{array}$ (syst) pb. The cross section is also measured differentially as a function of the pseudorapidity of the muon from the W boson decay. These measurements are compared with theoretical predictions and are used to probe the strange quark content of the proton.

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