Publications [#307845] of Ashutosh V. Kotwal

Papers Published
  1. Aaltonen, ; T, ; al, E, First Measurement of the Angular Coefficients of {Drell-Yan} ${e}^{+}{e}^{-}$ Pairs in the ${Z}$ Mass Region from $p\overline{p}$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s}=1.96\text{\,}\text{\,}\mathrm{TeV}$, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 106 no. 24 (June, 2011), pp. 241801, American Physical Society [doi] .

    Abstract:
    We report on the first measurement of the angular distributions of final state electrons in pp¯ → γ*/Z → e(+)e(-) + X events produced in the Z boson mass region at √s1.96 TeV. The data sample collected by the CDF II detector for this result corresponds to 2.1  fb(-1) of integrated luminosity. The angular distributions are studied as a function of the transverse momentum of the electron-positron pair and show good agreement with the Lam-Tung relation, consistent with a spin-1 description of the gluon, and demonstrate that, at high values of the transverse momentum, Z bosons are produced via quark-antiquark annihilation and quark-gluon Compton processes.

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