Title Differential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeVDifferential cross section measurements for the production of a W boson in association with jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV Author Khachatryan, V. Sirunyan, A. M. Tumasyan, A. Alderweireldt, S. Bansal, M. Bansal, S. Cornelis, T. de Wolf, E.A. Janssen, X. Knutsson, A. Luyckx, S. Roland, B. Rougny, R. van de Klundert, M. van Haevermaet, H. Van Mechelen, P. Van Remortel, N. Van Spilbeeck, A. et al. Faculty/Department Faculty of Sciences. Physics Research group Elementary Particle Physics Department of Physics Publication type article Publication 2015Amsterdam, 2015 Subject Physics Source (journal) Physics letters: B. - Amsterdam, 1967, currens Volume/pages 741(2015), p. 12-37 ISSN 0370-2693 ISI 000348290800002 Carrier E Target language English (eng) Full text (Publishers DOI) Affiliation University of Antwerp Abstract Measurements are reported of differential cross sections for the production of a W boson, which decays into a muon and a neutrino, in association with jets, as a function of several variables, including the transverse momenta (p(T)) and pseudorapidities of the four leading jets, the scalar sum of jet transverse momenta (H-T), and the difference in azimuthal angle between the directions of each jet and the muon. The data sample of pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb (1). The measured cross sections are compared to predictions from Monte Carlo generators, MADGRAPH + PYTHIA and SHERPA, and to next-to-leading-order calculations from BLACKHAT + SHERPA. The differential cross sections are found to be in agreement with the predictions, apart from the p(T) distributions of the leading jets at high p(T) values, the distributions of the H-T at high-H-T and low jet multiplicity, and the distribution of the difference in azimuthal angle between the leading jet and the muon at low values. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Full text (open access) https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/9e5fbe/9566.pdf E-info http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000348290800002&DestLinkType=RelatedRecords&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000348290800002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000348290800002&DestLinkType=CitingArticles&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 Handle