Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at $ \sqrt{s_{\textrm{NN}}} $ = 8.16 TeV

Autor: Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, A.S. 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Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LHCb
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: JHEP
JHEP, 2023, 06, pp.022. ⟨10.1007/JHEP06(2023)022⟩
Popis: This article presents the first measurement of the differential $Z$-boson production cross-section in the forward region using proton-lead collisions with the LHCb detector. The dataset was collected at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=8.16\,\mathrm{TeV}$ in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of $30.8\,\mathrm{nb}^{-1}$. The forward-backward ratio and the nuclear modification factors are measured together with the differential cross-section as functions of the $Z$ boson rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame, the transverse momentum of the $Z$ boson and a geometric variable $\phi^{*}$. The results are in good agreement with the predictions from nuclear parton distribution functions, providing strong constraining power at small Bjorken-$x$.
Comment: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and additional information, are available at https://cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/p/LHCb-PAPER-2022-009.html (LHCb public pages)
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