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Z boson production in p+Pb collisions at s NN =5.02 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector

  • Atlas Collaboration
  • Aix-Marseille Université
  • University of Oklahoma
  • Academia Sinica - Institute of Physics
  • Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Michigan State University
  • University of Toronto
  • Tel Aviv University
  • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
  • University of Oregon
  • Stockholm University
  • The Oskar Klein Centre
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  • King's College London
  • AGH University of Krakow
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Northern Illinois University
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • University of Liverpool
  • University of Belgrade
  • University of Göttingen
  • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas
  • University of Granada
  • NOVA University Lisbon
  • Boston University
  • Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
  • Lund University
  • P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • University of Bologna
  • University of Victoria BC
  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Instituto de Física La Plata
  • CERN
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • The University of Chicago
  • Columbia University
  • University of Sussex
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Queen Mary University of London

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Abstract

The ATLAS Collaboration measures the inclusive production of Z bosons via their decays into electron and muon pairs in p+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are made using data corresponding to integrated luminosities of 29.4 and 28.1 nb-1 for Z→ee and Z→μμ, respectively. The results from the two channels are consistent and combined to obtain a cross section times the Z→ℓℓ branching ratio, integrated over the rapidity region |yZ∗|<3.5, of 139.8±4.8(statistical)±6.2(systematic)±3.8 (luminosity) nb. Differential cross sections are presented as functions of the Z boson rapidity and transverse momentum and compared with models based on parton distributions both with and without nuclear corrections. The centrality dependence of Z boson production in p+Pb collisions is measured and analyzed within the framework of a standard Glauber model and the model's extension for fluctuations of the underlying nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section.

Original languageEnglish
Article number044915
JournalPhysical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume92
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 30 2015

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