Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in pp collisions at s = 5. 02 TeV

Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in pp collisions at s = 5. 02 TeV

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The first measurement of the Z boson production cross-section at centre-of-mass energy s = 5.02 TeV in the forward region is reported, using pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment in year 2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 100 ± 2 pb−1. The production cross-section is mea...

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Main Authors: Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, ASW, Abellan Beteta, C, Abudinén, F, Ackernley, T, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Afsharnia, H, Agapopoulou, C, Aidala, CA, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Akiba, K, Albicocco, P, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Alfonso Albero, A, Aliouche, Z, Alvarez Cartelle, P, Amalric, R, Amato, S, Amey, JL, Cervenkov, D, Fischer, KM, Gao, R, Gilman, AL, Goncalves Abrantes, F, Harnew, N, John, M, Mackay, I, Malde, S, Mohammed, RA, Pajero, T, Patoc, J, Resmi, PK, Rollings, A, Scantlebury Smead, LG, Smallwood, JC, Stanislaus, S, Suljik, F, Tat, MD, Wilkinson, G, Zhang, Y
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2024
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Summary:The first measurement of the Z boson production cross-section at centre-of-mass energy s = 5.02 TeV in the forward region is reported, using pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment in year 2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 100 ± 2 pb−1. The production cross-section is measured for final-state muons in the pseudorapidity range 2.0 < η < 4.5 with transverse momentum pT> 20 GeV/c. The integrated cross-section is determined to beσZ→μ+μ−=39.6±0.7stat±0.6syst±0.8lumipb for the di-muon invariant mass in the range 60 < Mμμ< 120 GeV/c2. This result and the differential cross-section results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant. Based on a previous LHCb measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in pPb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV, the nuclear modification factor RpPb is measured for the first time at this energy. The measured values are 1.2−0.3+0.5 (stat) ± 0.1(syst) in the forward region (1.53 <yμ∗< 4.03) and 3.6−0.9+1.6 (stat) ± 0.2(syst) in the backward region (−4.97 <yμ∗< −2.47), where yμ∗ represents the muon rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame.

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