Study of Z boson production in pPb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV

Khachatryan, V. and Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Asilar, E. and Filipovic, Nicolas and Bencze, György and Hajdú, Csaba and Hidas, Pál and Horváth, Dezső and Siklér, Ferenc and Veszprémi, Viktor and Vesztergombi, György and Zsigmond, Anna Júlia and Karancsi, János and Molnár, József and Bartók, Márton and Makovec, Alajos and Trócsányi, Zoltán and Ujvári, Balázs and Veres, Gábor (2016) Study of Z boson production in pPb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. PHYSICS LETTERS B, 759. pp. 36-57. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

The production of Z bosons in pPb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV is studied by the CMS experiment via the electron and muon decay channels. The inclusive cross sec- tion is compared to pp collision predictions, and found to scale with the number of elementary nucleon-nucleon collisions. The differential cross sections as a function of the Z boson rapidity and transverse momentum are measured. Though they are found to be consistent within uncertainty with theoretical predictions both with and without nuclear effects, the forward-backward asymmetry suggests the presence of nuclear effects at large rapidities. These results provide new data for constraining nuclear parton distribution functions.

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