Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Andrejkovic, J. W.Bergauer, T.Chatterjee, S.Damanakis, K.The ATLAS collaboration2024-03-092024-03-0920230370-26931873-2445https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137563https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14034/1326A precise measurement of the invisible width of the Z boson produced in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV is presented using data recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36.3 fb-1. The result is obtained from a simultaneous fit to kinematic distributions for two data samples of Z boson plus jets: one dominated by Z boson decays to invisible particles and the other by Z boson decays to muon and electron pairs. The invisible width is measured to be 523 & PLUSMN; 3 (stat) & PLUSMN; 16 (syst) MeV. This result is the first precise measurement of the invisible width of the Z boson at a hadron collider, and is the single most precise direct measurement to date, competitive with the combined result of the direct measurements from the LEP experiments. & COPY; 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons .org /licenses /by /4 .0/). Funded by SCOAP3.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCms; Z BosonArticle10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137563842N/AWOS:0010237318000012-s2.0-85162818851Q1