Observation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb
The first observation of $Z$ boson production in proton-lead collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per proton-nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5~\text{TeV}$ is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $1.6~\text{nb}^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector. The $Z$ candidate...
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| author | collaboration, L Aaij, R Adeva, B Adinolfi, M Affolder, A Ajaltouni, Z Akar, S Albrecht, J Alessio, F Alexander, M Ali, S Alkhazov, G Cartelle, P Jr, A Amato, S Amerio, S Amhis, Y An, L Anderlini, L Anderson, J Andreassen, R Andreotti, M Andrews, J Appleby, R Gutierrez, O |
| author_facet | collaboration, L Aaij, R Adeva, B Adinolfi, M Affolder, A Ajaltouni, Z Akar, S Albrecht, J Alessio, F Alexander, M Ali, S Alkhazov, G Cartelle, P Jr, A Amato, S Amerio, S Amhis, Y An, L Anderlini, L Anderson, J Andreassen, R Andreotti, M Andrews, J Appleby, R Gutierrez, O |
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| description | The first observation of $Z$ boson production in proton-lead collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per proton-nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5~\text{TeV}$ is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $1.6~\text{nb}^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector. The $Z$ candidates are reconstructed from pairs of oppositely charged muons with pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5 and transverse momenta above $20~\text{GeV}/c$. The invariant dimuon mass is restricted to the range $60-120~\text{GeV}/c^2$. The $Z$ production cross-section is measured to be \begin{eqnarray*} \sigma_{Z\to\mu^+\mu^-}(\text{fwd})and=and13.5^{+5.4}_{-4.0}\text{(stat.)}\pm1.2\text{(syst.)}~\text{nb} \end{eqnarray*} in the direction of the proton beam and \begin{eqnarray*} \sigma_{Z\to\mu^+\mu^-}(\text{bwd}) and =and10.7^{+8.4}_{-5.1}\text{(stat.)}\pm1.0\text{(syst.)}~\text{nb} \end{eqnarray*} in the direction of the lead beam, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:8d280c17-ca37-47f3-a765-26e7b564bd0c2022-03-26T22:49:25ZObservation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCbJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8d280c17-ca37-47f3-a765-26e7b564bd0cEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer Verlag2014collaboration, LAaij, RAdeva, BAdinolfi, MAffolder, AAjaltouni, ZAkar, SAlbrecht, JAlessio, FAlexander, MAli, SAlkhazov, GCartelle, PJr, AAmato, SAmerio, SAmhis, YAn, LAnderlini, LAnderson, JAndreassen, RAndreotti, MAndrews, JAppleby, RGutierrez, OThe first observation of $Z$ boson production in proton-lead collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per proton-nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5~\text{TeV}$ is presented. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of $1.6~\text{nb}^{-1}$ collected with the LHCb detector. The $Z$ candidates are reconstructed from pairs of oppositely charged muons with pseudorapidities between 2.0 and 4.5 and transverse momenta above $20~\text{GeV}/c$. The invariant dimuon mass is restricted to the range $60-120~\text{GeV}/c^2$. The $Z$ production cross-section is measured to be \begin{eqnarray*} \sigma_{Z\to\mu^+\mu^-}(\text{fwd})and=and13.5^{+5.4}_{-4.0}\text{(stat.)}\pm1.2\text{(syst.)}~\text{nb} \end{eqnarray*} in the direction of the proton beam and \begin{eqnarray*} \sigma_{Z\to\mu^+\mu^-}(\text{bwd}) and =and10.7^{+8.4}_{-5.1}\text{(stat.)}\pm1.0\text{(syst.)}~\text{nb} \end{eqnarray*} in the direction of the lead beam, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. |
| spellingShingle | collaboration, L Aaij, R Adeva, B Adinolfi, M Affolder, A Ajaltouni, Z Akar, S Albrecht, J Alessio, F Alexander, M Ali, S Alkhazov, G Cartelle, P Jr, A Amato, S Amerio, S Amhis, Y An, L Anderlini, L Anderson, J Andreassen, R Andreotti, M Andrews, J Appleby, R Gutierrez, O Observation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb |
| title | Observation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb |
| title_full | Observation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb |
| title_fullStr | Observation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb |
| title_full_unstemmed | Observation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb |
| title_short | Observation of $Z$ production in proton-lead collisions at LHCb |
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