Name: ATLAS_2023_I2628732
Year: 2023
Summary: W+D production in pp at 13 TeV
Experiment: ATLAS
Collider: LHC
InspireID: 2628732
Status: VALIDATED
Reentrant: true
Authors:
 - Miha Muskinja <miha.muskinja@cern.ch>
References:
 - arXiv:2302.00336 [hep-ex]
 - ATLAS-STDM-2019-22
Keywords:
  - WBOSON
  - CHARM
  - HEAVY FLAVOUR
RunInfo: W+charm production
Beams: [p+, p+]
Energies: [13000]
Luminosity_fb: 140.0
Description:
  'The production of a $W$ boson in association with a single charm quark is studied using 140 ifb$^{-1}$ of i$\sqrt{s} = 13$TeV
  proton-proton collision data collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The charm quark is tagged by a
  charmed hadron, reconstructed with a secondary-vertex fit. The $W$ boson is reconstructed from an electron/muon decay and the
  missing transverse momentum. The mesons reconstructed are $D^\pm\to K^\mp\pi^\pm\pi^\pm$ and
  $D^{\ast\pm} \to D^0\pi^\pm \to (K^\mp\pi^\pm)\pi^\pm$, where $p_\text{T}(e,\mu)>30$GeV, $|\eta(e,\mu)|<2.5$,
  $p_\text{T}(D)>8$GeV, and $|\eta(D)|<2.2$. The integrated and normalized differential cross-sections as a function of the pseudorapidity
  of the lepton from the $W$ boson decay, and of the transverse momentum of the meson, are extracted from the data using a profile
  likelihood fit. The measured fiducial cross-sections are
  $\sigma_\text{fid}^{OS-SS}(W^- + D^+) = 50.2\pm 0.2$ (stat.) $^{+2.4}_{-2.3}$ (syst.) pb,
  $\sigma_\text{fid}^{OS-SS}(W^+ + D^-) = 48.2\pm 0.2$ (stat.) $^{+2.3}_{-2.2}$ (syst.) pb,
  $\sigma_\text{fid}^{OS-SS}(W^- + D^{\ast+}) = 51.1\pm 0.4$ (stat.) $^{+1.9}_{-1.8}$ (syst.) pb, and
  $\sigma_\text{fid}^{OS-SS}(W^+ + D^{\ast-}) = 50.0\pm 0.4$ (stat.) $^{+1.9}_{-1.8}$ (syst.) pb.
  Results are compared with the predictions of next-to-leading-order quantum chromodynamics calculations performed using
  state-of-the-art parton distribution functions. The ratio of charm to anti-charm production cross-sections is studied
  to probe the $s-\bar{s}$ quark asymmetry and is found to be $R^\pm_c = 0.971 \pm 0.006$ (stat.) $\pm0.011$ (syst.).'
BibKey: ATLAS:2023ibp
BibTeX: '@article{ATLAS:2023ibp,
    collaboration = "ATLAS",
    title = "{Measurement of the production of a $W$ boson in association with a charmed hadron in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13\,\mathrm{TeV}$ with the ATLAS detector}",
    eprint = "2302.00336",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "hep-ex",
    reportNumber = "CERN-EP-2022-291",
    month = "2",
    year = "2023"
}'
ReleaseTests:
 - $A LHC-13-Top-All
