Proceedings of XXI International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects — PoS(DIS 2013)
DOI: 10.22323/1.191.0286
The production of Z(0) bosons in the reaction ep -> eZ(0)p((*)), where p((*)) stands for a proton or a low-mass nucleon resonance, has been studied in ep collisions at HERA using the ZEUS detector. The analysis is based on a data sample collected between 1996 and 2007, amounting to 496 pb(-1) of integrated luminosity. The Z(0) was measured in the hadronic decay mode. The elasticity of the events was ensured by a cut on eta(max) eZ(0)p((*)) was measured to be sigma(ep -> eZ(0)p((*))) = 0.13 +/- 0.06(stat.) +/- 0.01(syst) pb, in agreement with the Standard Model prediction of 0.16 pb. Thfs is the first measurement of Z(0) production in ep collisions. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.