Measurement of the Z -> tau tau cross section with the ATLAS detector

The Z -> tau tau cross section is measured with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in four different final states determined by the decay modes of the tau leptons: muon-hadron, electron-hadron, electron-muon, and muon-muon. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1), at a proton-proton center-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV. Cross sections are measured separately for each final state in fiducial regions of high detector acceptance, as well as in the full phase space, over the mass region 66-116 GeV. The individual cross sections are combined and the product of the total Z production cross section and Z -> tau tau branching fraction is measured to be 0.97 +/- 0.07(stat) +/- 0.06(syst) +/- 0: 03(lumi) nb, in agreement with next-to-next-to-leading order calculations. RI Gutierrez, Phillip/C-1161-2011; Ferrando, James/A-9192-2012; collins-tooth, christopher/A-9201-2012; Perrino, Roberto/B-4633-2010; Laurelli, Paolo/B-1432-2012; De Cecco, Sandro/B-1016-2012; Stoicea, Gabriel/B-6717-2011; branchini, paolo/A-4857-2011; Wolter, Marcin/A-7412-2012; Rotaru, Marina/A-3097-2011; O'Shea, Val/G-1279-2010; Doyle, Anthony/C-5889-2009; valente, paolo/A-6640-2010; Buttar, Craig/D-3706-2011; Pina, Joao /C-4391-2012; Takai, Helio/C-3301-2012; St.Denis, Richard/C-8997-2012; Jones, Roger/H-5578-2011; Robson, Aidan/G-1087-2011; Britton, David/F-2602-2010; Li, Xuefei/C-3861-2012; Fazio, Salvatore /G-5156-2010; Smirnova, Lidia/D-8089-2012; Smirnov, Sergei/F-1014-2011; Gladilin, Leonid/B-5226-2011; Barreiro, Fernando/D-9808-2012; Kramarenko, Victor/E-1781-2012; Prokoshin, Fedor/E-2795-2012; Alexa, Calin/F-6345-2010; Pacheco Pages, Andres/C-5353-2011; Moorhead, Gareth/B-6634-2009; Livan, Michele/D-7531-2012; Petrucci, Fabrizio/G-8348-2012; Wemans, Andre/A-6738-2012; Fabbri, Laura/H-3442-2012; Kurashige, Hisaya/H-4916-2012; Villa, Mauro/C-9883-2009; Kuzhir, Polina/H-8653-2012; Delmastro, Marco/I-5599-2012

The Z -> tau tau cross section is measured with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in four different final states determined by the decay modes of the tau leptons: muon-hadron, electron-hadron, electron-muon, and muon-muon. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1), at a proton-proton center-of-mass energy of root s = 7 TeV. Cross sections are measured separately for each final state in fiducial regions of high detector acceptance, as well as in the full phase space, over the mass region 66-116 GeV. The individual cross sections are combined and the product of the total Z production cross section and Z -> tau tau branching fraction is measured to be 0.97 +/- 0.07(stat) +/- 0.06(syst) +/- 0: 03(lumi) nb, in agreement with next-to-next-to-leading order calculations.