Latest results on inclusive W/Z production at CMS
Heiner Wollny · 2014
At the LHC, inclusive production of W and Z-bosons offer a window to perform stringent tests of theoretical predictions based on the Standard Model (SM) and probe its fundamental parameters.With the large samples of W and Z events collected with the CMS detector, many processes have been studied at an unprecedented precision.These measurements test the SM predictions up to next-to-next-to-leading order and provide valuable inputs to improve the theoretical framework used to model LHC physics.In addition they put constraints on the parton distribution functions of the proton.In the following we will concentrate on the measurement of the fiducial Drell-Yan (DY ) to muons cross-section at the Z-boson mass peak, double differentially in transverse momentum (P T (Z)) and rapidity (Y (Z)), as it was presented for the first time during this conference. XXII.