Measurement of the $W \to e ν$ and $Z/γ^* \to e^+e^-$ Production Cross Sections at Mid-rapidity in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV
Creators: name: STAR Collaboration
name: Agakishiev, G.
name: Aggarwal, M. M.
name: Ahammed, Z.
name: Alakhverdyants, A. V.
name: Alekseev, I.
name: Alford, J.
name: Anderson, B. D.
name: Anson, C. D.
name: Arkhipkin, D.
name: Averichev, G. S.
name: Balewski, J.
name: Banerjee
name: Barnovska, Z.
name: Beavis, D. R.
name: Bellwied, R.
name: Betancourt, M. J.
name: Betts, R. R.
name: Bhasin, A.
name: Bhati, A. K.
name: Bichsel, H.
name: Bielcik, J.
name: Bielcikova, J.
name: Bland, L. C.
name: Bordyuzhin, I. G.
name: Borowski, W.
name: Bouchet, J.
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name: Brovko, S. G.
name: Bruna, E.
name: Bueltmann, S.
name: Bunzarov, I.
name: Burton, T. P.
name: Butterworth, J.
name: Cai, X. Z.
name: Caines, H.
name: Sánchez, M. Calderón de la Barca
name: Cebra, D.
name: Cendejas, R.
name: Cervantes, M. C.
name: Chaloupka, P.
name: Chattopadhyay, S.
name: Chen, H. F.
name: Chen, J. H.
name: Chen, J. Y.
name: Chen, L.
name: Cheng, J.
name: Cherney, M.
name: Chikanian, A.
name: Christie, W.
name: Chung, P.
name: Codrington, M. J. M.
name: Corliss, R.
name: Cramer, J. G.
name: Crawford, H. J.
name: Cui, X.
name: Leyva, A. Davila
name: De Silva, L. C.
name: Debbe, R. R.
name: Dedovich, T. G.
name: Deng, J.
name: de Souza, R. Derradi
name: Dhamija, S.
name: Didenko, L.
name: Ding, F.
name: Djawotho, P.
name: Dong, X.
name: Drachenberg, J. L.
name: Draper, J. E.
name: Du, C. M.
name: Dunkelberger, L. E.
name: Dunlop, J. C.
name: Efimov, L. G.
name: Elnimr, M.
name: Engelage, J.
name: Eppley, G.
name: Eun, L.
name: Evdokimov, O.
name: Fatemi, R.
name: Fedorisin, J.
name: Fersch, R. G.
name: Filip, P.
name: Finch, E.
name: Fisyak, Y.
name: Gagliardi, C. A.
name: Gangadharan, D. R.
name: Geurts, F.
name: Gliske, S.
name: Gorbunov, Y. N.
name: Grebenyuk, O. G.
name: Grosnick, D.
name: Gupta, S.
name: Guryn, W.
name: Haag, B.
name: Hajkova, O.
name: Hamed, A.
name: Han, L-X.
name: Harris, J. W.
name: Hays-Wehle, J. P.
name: Heppelmann, S.
name: Hirsch, A.
name: Hoffmann, G. W.
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name: Jacobs, W. W.
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name: Stevens, J. R.
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name: Strikhanov, M.
name: Stringfellow, B.
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name: Sun, X. M.
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name: Surrow, B.
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name: de Toledo, A. Szanto
name: Takahashi, J.
name: Tang, A. H.
name: Tang, Z.
name: Tarini, L. H.
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name: Thein, D.
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name: Tokarev, M.
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name: van Nieuwenhuizen, G.
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name: Varma, R.
name: Vasconcelos, G. M. S.
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name: Wang, H.
name: Wang, J. S.
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name: Wang, X. L.
name: Wang, Y.
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name: Whitten, C.
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name: Xu, Z.
name: Xue, L.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Yang, Y.
name: Yepes, P.
name: Yi, Y.
name: Yip, K.
name: Yoo, I-K.
name: Zawisza, M.
name: Zbroszczyk, H.
name: Zhang, J. B.
name: Zhang, S.
name: Zhang, W. M.
name: Zhang, X. P.
name: Zhang, Y.
name: Zhang, Z. P.
name: Zhao, F.
name: Zhao, J.
name: Zhong, C.
name: Zhu, X.
name: Zhu, Y. H.
name: Zoulkarneeva, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of the charge-separated $W^{+(-)} \to e^{+(-)} + ν_e(\barν_e)$ and $Z/γ^* \to e^+e^-$ production cross sections at mid-rapidity in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV. These results are based on 13.2 pb$^{-1}$ of data recorded in 2009 by the STAR detector at RHIC. Production cross sections for W bosons that decay via the $e ν$ channel were measured to be $σ(pp \to W^+ X) \cdot BR(W^+ \to e^+ ν_e)$ = 117.3 \pm 5.9(stat) \pm 6.2(syst) \pm 15.2(lumi) pb, and $σ(pp \to W^- X) \cdot BR(W^- \to e^- \barν_e)$ = 43.3 \pm 4.6(stat) \pm 3.4(syst) \pm 5.6(lumi) pb. For $Z/γ^*$ production, $σ(pp \to Z/γ^* X) \cdot BR(Z/γ^* \to e^+ e^-)$ = 7.7 \pm 2.1(stat) $^{+0.5}_{-0.9}$(syst) \pm 1.0(lumi) pb for di-lepton invariant masses $m_{e^+e^-}$ between 70 and 110 GeV/$c^2$. First measurements of the W cross section ratio, $σ(pp \to W^+ X) / σ(pp \to W^- X)$, at $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV are also reported. Theoretical predictions, calculated using recent parton distribution functions, are found to agree with the measured cross sections.
description: 14 pages, 12 figures, submitted to Physical Review D