Z boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at √Snn = 5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment

The ATLAS collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135262

Z boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at √S_nn = 5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment

The ATLAS collaboration

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The production yield of Z bosons is measured in the electron and muon decay channels in Pb+Pb collisions at √S_nn = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Data from the 2015 LHC run corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.49 nb^-1 are used for the analysis. The Z boson yield, normalised by the total number of minimum-bias events and the mean nuclear thickness function, is measured as a function of dilepton rapidity and event centrality. The measurements in Pb+Pb collisions are compared with similar measurements made in proton-proton collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy. The nuclear modification factor is found to be consistent with unity for all centrality intervals. The results are compared with theoretical predictions obtained at next-to-leading order using nucleon and nuclear parton distribution functions. The normalised Z boson yields in Pb+Pb collisions lie 1-3σ above the predictions. The nuclear modification factor measured as a function of rapidity agrees with unity and is consistent with a next-to-leading-order QCD calculation including the isospin effect.

Original language	English
Article number	135262
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	802
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135262
State	Published - Mar 10 2020

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Z boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at √S_nn = 5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment

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