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CMS Physics Analysis Summaries
Report number	CMS-PAS-EWK-11-004
Title	Forward-backward asymmetry of Drell-Yan pairs
Corporate author(s)	CMS Collaboration
Collaboration	CMS Collaboration
Subject category	Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	CERN LHC ; CMS
Abstract	We present a measurement of the forward-backward asymmetry (A$_{\rm FB}$) for opposite charge lepton pairs produced via an intermediate Z/$\gamma^*$ at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV in the CMS experiment. Our results are based on an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb$^{-1}$. We present A$_{\rm FB}$ as a function of the di-lepton mass for ${\rm M}_{\ell^{+}\ell^{-}}>$ 40 GeV, the raw A$_{\rm FB}$ for both di-muons and di-electrons and the combined measurement at the Born level. The di-muon channel and the combined A$_{\rm FB}$ measurements represent the first such measurements at a hadron collider. We find that the A$_{\rm FB}$ distributions are consistent with the Standard Model predictions within uncertainties.
Other source	Inspire
Related	superseded by: CERN-PH-EP-2012-187
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