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

ATLAS Collaboration; G Aad; Torsten Åkesson; Simona Bocchetta; Lene Bryngemark; Eric Edward Corrigan; Caterina Doglioni; Kristian Gregersen; Eva Brottmann Hansen; Vincent Hedberg; Göran Jarlskog; Charles Kalderon; Edgar Kellermann; Balazs Konya; Else Lytken; Katja Mankinen; Caterina Marcon; Ulf Mjörnmark; Geoffrey André Adrien Mullier; Ruth Pöttgen; Trine Poulsen; Eleni Skorda; Oxana Smirnova; L Zwalinski

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135262

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

ATLAS Collaboration, G Aad, Torsten Åkesson, Simona Bocchetta, Lene Bryngemark, Eric Edward Corrigan, Caterina Doglioni, Kristian Gregersen, Eva Brottmann Hansen, Vincent Hedberg, Göran Jarlskog, Charles Kalderon, Edgar Kellermann, Balazs Konya, Else Lytken, Katja Mankinen, Caterina Marcon, Ulf Mjörnmark, Geoffrey André Adrien Mullier, Ruth PöttgenTrine Poulsen, Eleni Skorda, Oxana Smirnova, L Zwalinski

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The production yield of Z bosons is measured in the electron and muon decay channels in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=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. © 2020 The Author(s)

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
Publication status	Published - 2020

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ATLAS Collaboration, Aad, G., Åkesson, T., Bocchetta, S., Bryngemark, L., Corrigan, E. E., Doglioni, C., Gregersen, K., Brottmann Hansen, E., Hedberg, V., Jarlskog, G., Kalderon, C., Kellermann, E., Konya, B., Lytken, E., Mankinen, K., Marcon, C., Mjörnmark, U., Mullier, G. A. A., ... Zwalinski, L. (2020). Z boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment. Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, 802, Article 135262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135262

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ATLAS Collaboration, Aad, G, Åkesson, T, Bocchetta, S, Bryngemark, L, Corrigan, EE, Doglioni, C, Gregersen, K, Brottmann Hansen, E, Hedberg, V , Jarlskog, G, Kalderon, C, Kellermann, E, Konya, B , Lytken, E, Mankinen, K, Marcon, C, Mjörnmark, U, Mullier, GAA, Pöttgen, R, Poulsen, T, Skorda, E, Smirnova, O & Zwalinski, L 2020, 'Z boson production in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment', Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, vol. 802, 135262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135262

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AU - Doglioni, Caterina

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

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