First Measurement of the Angular Coefficients of Drell-Yan e^ + e^ - Pairs in the Z Mass Region from pp over ¯ Collisions at sqrt s =1.96 TeV.
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| Abstract | :  We report on the first measurement of the angular distributions of final state electrons in pp[over ¯]→γ^{*}/Z→e^{+}e^{-}+X events produced in the Z boson mass region at sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV. The data sample collected by the CDF II detector for this result corresponds to 2.1 fb^{-1} of integrated luminosity. The angular distributions are studied as a function of the transverse momentum of the electron-positron pair and show good agreement with the Lam-Tung relation, consistent with a spin-1 description of the gluon, and demonstrate that, at high values of the transverse momentum, Z bosons are produced via quark-antiquark annihilation and quark-gluon Compton processes. | 
| Year of Publication | :  1969 | 
| Journal | :  Physical review letters | 
| Volume | :  106 | 
| Issue | :  24 | 
| Number of Pages | :  241801 | 
| Date Published | :  2011 Jun 17 | 
| ISSN Number | :  0031-9007 | 
| URL | :  http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/p241801 | 
| Short Title | :  First Measurement of the Angular Coefficients of DrellYan e e Pa | 
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