Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV
Abstract This article presents the first measurement of the differential Z-boson production cross-section in the forward region using proton-lead collisions with the LHCb detector. The dataset was collected at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of...
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| author | Aaij, R. Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W. Abellan Beteta, C. Abudinén, F. Ackernley, T. Adeva, B. Adinolfi, M. Afsharnia, H. Agapopoulou, C. Aidala, C. A. Aiola, S. Ajaltouni, Z. Akar, S. Akiba, K. Albrecht, J. Alessio, F. Alexander, M. |
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This article presents the first measurement of the differential Z-boson production cross-section in the forward region using proton-lead collisions with the LHCb detector. The dataset was collected at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of
s
NN
$$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$
= 8.16 TeV in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 30.8 nb−1. The forward-backward ratio and the nuclear modification factors are measured together with the differential cross-section as functions of the Z boson rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame, the transverse momentum of the Z boson and a geometric variable ϕ*. The results are in good agreement with the predictions from nuclear parton distribution functions, providing strong constraining power at small Bjorken-x. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1509042023-06-13T03:39:04Z Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV Aaij, R. Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W. Abellan Beteta, C. Abudinén, F. Ackernley, T. Adeva, B. Adinolfi, M. Afsharnia, H. Agapopoulou, C. Aidala, C. A. Aiola, S. Ajaltouni, Z. Akar, S. Akiba, K. Albrecht, J. Alessio, F. Alexander, M. Abstract This article presents the first measurement of the differential Z-boson production cross-section in the forward region using proton-lead collisions with the LHCb detector. The dataset was collected at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 30.8 nb−1. The forward-backward ratio and the nuclear modification factors are measured together with the differential cross-section as functions of the Z boson rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame, the transverse momentum of the Z boson and a geometric variable ϕ*. The results are in good agreement with the predictions from nuclear parton distribution functions, providing strong constraining power at small Bjorken-x. 2023-06-12T14:35:19Z 2023-06-12T14:35:19Z 2023-06-05 2023-06-11T03:13:23Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150904 Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023 Jun 05;2023(6):22 PUBLISHER_CC en https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2023)022 Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ The Author(s) application/pdf Springer Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| spellingShingle | Aaij, R. Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W. Abellan Beteta, C. Abudinén, F. Ackernley, T. Adeva, B. Adinolfi, M. Afsharnia, H. Agapopoulou, C. Aidala, C. A. Aiola, S. Ajaltouni, Z. Akar, S. Akiba, K. Albrecht, J. Alessio, F. Alexander, M. Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV |
| title | Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV |
| title_full | Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV |
| title_short | Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at s NN $$ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 8.16 TeV |
| title_sort | measurement of the z boson production cross section in proton lead collisions at s nn sqrt s textrm nn 8 16 tev |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150904 |
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