Hayrapetyan, A.Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Andrejkovic, J.W.Bergauer, T.Chatterjee, S.Damanakis, K.Gürpınar Güler, EmineGüler, Yalçın2024-01-232024-01-2320241434-60441434-6052https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12268-2https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13091/5014The measurement of Z boson production is presented as a method to determine the integrated luminosity of CMS data sets. The analysis uses proton–proton collision data, recorded by the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in 2017 at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV . Events with Z bosons decaying into a pair of muons are selected. The total number of Z bosons produced in a fiducial volume is determined, together with the identification efficiencies and correlations from the same data set, in small intervals of 20 pb-1 of integrated luminosity, thus facilitating the efficiency and rate measurement as a function of time and instantaneous luminosity. Using the ratio of the efficiency-corrected numbers of Z bosons, the precisely measured integrated luminosity of one data set is used to determine the luminosity of another. For the first time, a full quantitative uncertainty analysis of the use of Z bosons for the integrated luminosity measurement is performed. The uncertainty in the extrapolation between two data sets, recorded in 2017 at low and high instantaneous luminosity, is less than 0.5%. We show that the Z boson rate measurement constitutes a precise method, complementary to traditional methods, with the potential to improve the measurement of the integrated luminosity. © 2024, The Author(s).eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBosonsUncertainty analysisA-centerCenter-of-mass energiesCentre-of-mass energiesData setEfficiency measurementIntegrated luminosityMeasurements ofProton proton collisionsRate measurementsZ BosonsLuminanceArticle10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12268-22-s2.0-85181987104