Study of $Z\to ll\gamma$ decays at $\sqrt{s}$= 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

This paper presents a study of $Z\to ll\gamma$decays with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The analysis uses a proton-proton data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 20.2 fb${}^{-1}$ collected at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV. Integrated fiducial cross-sections together with normalised differential fiducial cross-sections, sensitive to the kinematics of final-state QED radiation, are obtained. The results are found to be in agreement with state-of-the-art predictions for final-state QED radiation. First measurements of $Z\to ll\gamma \gamma$ decays are also reported.

43 pages in total, author list starting page 26, 7 figures, 6 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/STDM-2017-05