Measurement of the inclusive cross-section for the production of jets in association with a Z boson in proton–proton collisions at 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector

The “overall type-1” systematic uncertainty includes overall cross section uncertainty 5%, overall acceptance uncertainty due to PDF and scale 1.8% and theoretical and

MC simulations are used to describe signal events, to estimate the contribution of background processes, to unfold the data yield to the particle level, to estimate

This ratio allows a more stringent comparison of data and cal- culations than the individual inclusive cross sections, since systematic uncertainties that are common or

The systematic uncertainties associated with the photon energy scale and resolution represent the dominant experimental uncertainties in the measurements of the di fferential

Systematic uncertainties associated with the EW-Zjj signal template used in the fit and EW-Zjj signal ex- traction are obtained from the variation in the measured cross-section

The inner shaded band represents the systematic uncertainty on the combined cross sections, and the outer shaded band represents the total measurement uncertainty (excluding

For both muons and electrons, the statistical precisions of the efficiencies are assigned as systematic uncertainties. For muons, the accuracy of the tag-and-probe methods used

Table 6: Normalization factors for backgrounds that have their normalization constrained using data in the fit, in- cluding all statistical and systematic uncertainties described