Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV
A measurement is presented of W-boson production in PbPb collisions carried out at a nucleon-nucleon (NN) centre-of-mass energy sNN of 2.76 TeV at the LHC using the CMS detector. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 μb -1, the number of W→μν μ decays is extracted in the region of...
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| author | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Eroe, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruehwirth, R Ghete, V Hammer, J Hoermann, N Hrubec, J Jeitler, M Kiesenhofer, W Knuenz, V Krammer, M Liko, D Mikulec, I Pernicka, M Rahbaran, B Rohringer, C Rohringer, H |
| author_facet | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Eroe, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruehwirth, R Ghete, V Hammer, J Hoermann, N Hrubec, J Jeitler, M Kiesenhofer, W Knuenz, V Krammer, M Liko, D Mikulec, I Pernicka, M Rahbaran, B Rohringer, C Rohringer, H |
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| description | A measurement is presented of W-boson production in PbPb collisions carried out at a nucleon-nucleon (NN) centre-of-mass energy sNN of 2.76 TeV at the LHC using the CMS detector. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 μb -1, the number of W→μν μ decays is extracted in the region of muon pseudorapidity |η μ|<2.1 and transverse momentum pTμ>25 GeV/c. Yields of muons found per unit of pseudorapidity correspond to (159±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10 -8 W + and (154±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10 -8 W - bosons per minimum-bias PbPb collision. The dependence of W production on the centrality of PbPb collisions is consistent with a scaling of the yield by the number of incoherent NN collisions. The yield of W bosons is also studied in a sample of pp interactions at s=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 231 nb -1. The individual W + and W - yields in PbPb and pp collisions are found to agree, once the neutron and proton content in Pb nuclei is taken into account. Likewise, the difference observed in the dependence of the positive and negative muon production on pseudorapidity is consistent with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. © 2012 CERN. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8790d76d-a592-49cc-922c-7fa06b8c25462022-03-26T22:11:36ZStudy of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeVJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8790d76d-a592-49cc-922c-7fa06b8c2546Symplectic Elements at Oxford2012Chatrchyan, SKhachatryan, VSirunyan, ATumasyan, AAdam, WBergauer, TDragicevic, MEroe, JFabjan, CFriedl, MFruehwirth, RGhete, VHammer, JHoermann, NHrubec, JJeitler, MKiesenhofer, WKnuenz, VKrammer, MLiko, DMikulec, IPernicka, MRahbaran, BRohringer, CRohringer, HA measurement is presented of W-boson production in PbPb collisions carried out at a nucleon-nucleon (NN) centre-of-mass energy sNN of 2.76 TeV at the LHC using the CMS detector. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 μb -1, the number of W→μν μ decays is extracted in the region of muon pseudorapidity |η μ|<2.1 and transverse momentum pTμ>25 GeV/c. Yields of muons found per unit of pseudorapidity correspond to (159±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10 -8 W + and (154±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10 -8 W - bosons per minimum-bias PbPb collision. The dependence of W production on the centrality of PbPb collisions is consistent with a scaling of the yield by the number of incoherent NN collisions. The yield of W bosons is also studied in a sample of pp interactions at s=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 231 nb -1. The individual W + and W - yields in PbPb and pp collisions are found to agree, once the neutron and proton content in Pb nuclei is taken into account. Likewise, the difference observed in the dependence of the positive and negative muon production on pseudorapidity is consistent with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. © 2012 CERN. |
| spellingShingle | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Eroe, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruehwirth, R Ghete, V Hammer, J Hoermann, N Hrubec, J Jeitler, M Kiesenhofer, W Knuenz, V Krammer, M Liko, D Mikulec, I Pernicka, M Rahbaran, B Rohringer, C Rohringer, H Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV |
| title | Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV |
| title_full | Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV |
| title_fullStr | Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV |
| title_full_unstemmed | Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV |
| title_short | Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV |
| title_sort | study of w boson production in pbpb and pp collisions at root s nn 2 76 tev |
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