Camboni, AlessandroComerma-Montells, A.Garrido Beltrán, LluísGraciani Diaz, RicardoGraugés Pous, EugeniPicatoste Olloqui, EduardoPotterat, CédricRives Molina, Vicente JoséRuiz, Hugo (Ruiz Pérez)LHCb Collaboration2022-05-172022-05-172014-041126-6708https://hdl.handle.net/2445/185687A search for associated production of a Z boson with an open charm meson is presented using a data sample, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV, collected by the LHCb experiment. Seven candidate events for associated production of a Z boson with a D0 meson and four candidate events for a Z boson with a D+ meson are observed with a combined significance of 5.1 standard deviations. The production crosssections in the forward region are measured to be σZ→µ+µ−,D0 = 2.50 ± 1.12 ± 0.22 pb σZ→µ+µ−,D+ = 0.44 ± 0.23 ± 0.03 pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic18 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Camboni, Alessandro et al., 2014https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/HadronsGran Col·lisionador d'HadronsFísica de partículesExperimentsHadronsLarge Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)Particle physicsExperimentsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article6457742022-05-17info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess