https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3195-6
Regular Article - Experimental Physics
Measurement of distributions sensitive to the underlying event in inclusive Z-boson production in $$pp$$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
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Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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Physics Department, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Department of Physics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Physics, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey; Division of Physics, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey; Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Ankara, Turkey
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LAPP, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université de Savoie, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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Physics Department, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece
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Institute of Physics, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
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Institut de Física d’Altes Energies and Departament de Física de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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Department for Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Department of Physics, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
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Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics and Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
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Department of Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Physics, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Physics Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey
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INFN Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Physikalisches Institut, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Department of Physics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro COPPE/EE/IF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Juiz de Fora, Brazil; Federal University of Sao Joao del Rei (UFSJ), Sao Joao del Rei, Brazil; Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania; Physics Department, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj Napoca, Romania; University Politehnica Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania; West University in Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
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Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Department of Physics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Departamento de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Departamento de Física, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaiso, Chile
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Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China; Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China; Physics Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont Université and Université Blaise Pascal and CNRS/IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Nevis Laboratory, Columbia University, Irvington, NY, USA
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Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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INFN Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy
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Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland; Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Physics Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
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Physics Department, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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DESY, Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany
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Institut für Experimentelle Physik IV, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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SUPA-School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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Fakultät für Mathematik und Physik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany
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Section de Physique, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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INFN Sezione di Genova, Genoa, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy
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E. Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia; High Energy Physics Institute, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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II Physikalisches Institut, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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SUPA-School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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II Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
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Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA
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Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; Physikalisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; ZITI Institut für technische Informatik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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Faculty of Applied Information Science, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima, Japan
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Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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Institut für Astro- und Teilchenphysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck, Austria
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University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR Dubna, Dubna, Russia
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KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
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Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
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Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Kyoto University of Education, Kyoto, Japan
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Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Instituto de Física La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
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Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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INFN Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy; Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
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Oliver Lodge Laboratory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Department of Physics, Jožef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, UK
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK
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Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, USA
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Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies, UPMC and Université Paris-Diderot and CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France
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Fysiska institutionen, Lunds universitet, Lund, Sweden
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Departamento de Fisica Teorica C-15, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille, France
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Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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Department of Physics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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INFN Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy
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B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
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National Scientific and Educational Centre for Particle and High Energy Physics, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
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Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Group of Particle Physics, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Moscow, Russia
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Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (MEPhI), Moscow, Russia
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D.V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut), Munich, Germany
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Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Nagasaki, Japan
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Graduate School of Science and Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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INFN Sezione di Napoli, Naples, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli, Naples, Italy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics, Radboud University Nijmegen/Nikhef, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Nikhef National Institute for Subatomic Physics and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Department of Physics, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Faculty of Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
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Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
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Palacký University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Center for High Energy Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
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LAL, Université Paris-Sud and CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
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Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
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Department of Physics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Department of Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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INFN Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia
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INFN Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas-LIP, Lisbon, Portugal; Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Department of Physics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Centro de Física Nuclear da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal; Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos and CAFPE, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain; Dep Fisica and CEFITEC of Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
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Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
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State Research Center Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia
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Particle Physics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, UK
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Physics Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada
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Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
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INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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INFN Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy; Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
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Faculté des Sciences Ain Chock, Réseau Universitaire de Physique des Hautes Energies-Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco; Centre National de l’Energie des Sciences Techniques Nucleaires, Rabat, Morocco; Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Université Cadi Ayyad, LPHEA-Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco; Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohamed Premier and LPTPM, Oujda, Morocco; Faculté des Sciences, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat, Morocco
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DSM/IRFU (Institut de Recherches sur les Lois Fondamentales de l’Univers), CEA Saclay (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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Department of Physics, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan
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Fachbereich Physik, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA, USA
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Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic; Department of Subnuclear Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovak Republic
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Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Physics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; The Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
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Physics Department, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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Department of Physics, Technion: Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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International Center for Elementary Particle Physics and Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
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Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
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Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
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Centro de Investigaciones, Universidad Antonio Narino, Bogota, Colombia
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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INFN Gruppo Collegato di Udine, Sezione di Trieste, Udine, Italy; ICTP, Trieste, Italy; Dipartimento di Chimica, Fisica e Ambiente, Università di Udine, Udine, Italy
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Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
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Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC) and Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear and Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica and Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM), University of Valencia and CSIC, Valencia, Spain
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Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
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Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany
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Fachbereich C Physik, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
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Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
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Centre de Calcul de l’Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3), Villeurbanne, France
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CERN, 1211, Geneva 23, Switzerland
* e-mail: atlas.publications@cern.ch
Received:
12
September
2014
Accepted:
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November
2014
Published online:
10
December
2014
A measurement of charged-particle distributions sensitive to the properties of the underlying event is presented for an inclusive sample of events containing a $$Z$$-boson, decaying to an electron or muon pair. The measurement is based on data collected using the ATLAS detector at the LHC in proton–proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of $$7$$ TeV with an integrated luminosity of $$4.6$$ fb$$^{-1}$$. Distributions of the charged particle multiplicity and of the charged particle transverse momentum are measured in regions of azimuthal angle defined with respect to the $$Z$$-boson direction. The measured distributions are compared to similar distributions measured in jet events, and to the predictions of various Monte Carlo generators implementing different underlying event models.
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