Event shapes and azimuthal correlations in Z + jets events in pp collisions at s√=7 TeV

CMS Collaboration [--] Quertenmont, Loic [UCL] Basegmez, Suzan [UCL] Bruno, Giacomo [UCL] Castello, Roberto [UCL] Ceard, Ludivine [UCL] Delaere, Christophe [UCL] Du Pree, Tristan [UCL] Favart, Denis [UCL] Forthomme, Laurent [UCL] Giammanco, Andrea [UCL] Hollar, Jonathan [UCL] Lemaitre, Vincent [UCL] Liao, Junhui [UCL] Militaru, Otilia [UCL] Nuttens, Claude [UCL] Pagano, Davide [UCL] Pin, Arnaud [UCL] Piotrzkowski, Krzysztof [UCL] Vizan Garcia, Jesús Manuel [UCL] et al.

Measurements of event shapes and azimuthal correlations are presented for events where a Z boson is produced in association with jets in proton–proton collisions. The data collected with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC at View the MathML sources=7 TeV correspond to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−15.0 fb−1. The analysis provides a test of predictions from perturbative QCD for a process that represents a substantial background to many physics channels. Results are presented as a function of jet multiplicity, for inclusive Z boson production and for Z bosons with transverse momenta greater than 150 GeV, and compared to predictions from Monte Carlo event generators that include leading-order multiparton matrix-element (with up to four hard partons in the final state) and next-to-leading-order simulations of Z+1-jetZ+1-jet events. The experimental results are corrected for detector effects, and can be compared directly with other QCD models.