Measurement of distributions sensitive to the underlying event in inclusive Z-boson production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detector

ATLAS collaboration (2893 authors)Aguilar-Saavedra, Juan AntonioAmor Dos Santos, Susana PatriciaAnjos, NunoAraque, Juan PedroCantrill, RobertCarvalho, JoãoCastro, Nuno FilipeConde Muiño, PatriciaDa Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario JoseDo Valle Wemans, AndréFiolhais, MiguelGalhardo, BrunoGomes, AgostinhoGonçalo, RicardoJorge, PedroLopes, LourencoMachado Miguens, JoanaMaio, AméliaManeira, JoséMarques, CarlosOnofre, AntónioPalma, AlbertoPedro, RutePina, João AntonioPinto, BelmiroSantos, HelenaSaraiva, JoãoSilva, JoséTavares Delgado, AdemarVeloso, FilipeWolters, Helmut2019-02-042019-02-042014-12-10http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3195-6http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26685A measurement of charged-particle distributions sensitive to the properties of the underlying event is presented for an inclusive sample of events containing a $Z$ -boson, decaying to an electron or muon pair. The measurement is based on data collected using the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $7$ TeV with an integrated luminosity of $4.6$ fb$^{-1}$ . Distributions of the charged particle multiplicity and of the charged particle transverse momentum are measured in regions of azimuthal angle defined with respect to the $Z$ -boson direction. The measured distributions are compared to similar distributions measured in jet events, and to the predictions of various Monte Carlo generators implementing different underlying event models.engMeasurement of distributions sensitive to the underlying event in inclusive Z-boson production in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV with the ATLAS detectorjournal article2019-02-04