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A.Wright, S.Wu, S.Wyllie, K.Xie, Y.Xing, Z.Yang, Z.Yuan, X.Yushchenko, O.Zangoli, M.Zavertyaev, M.Zhang, F.Zhang, L.Zhang, W. C.Zhang, Y.Zhelezov, A.Zhokhov, A.Zhong, L.Zvyagin, A.2014-12-302014-12-302014-12-30201410.1007/Jhep04(2014)091https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/109597WOS:000334501000002A 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 7TeV, 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 cross-sections in the forward region are measured to be σ<inf>Z → μ+μ−,D0</inf> = 2.50 ± 1.12 ± 0.22 pb, σ<inf>Z → μ+μ−,D+</inf> = 0.44 ± 0.23 ± 0.03 pb, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. © CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration.text::journal::journal article::research article