Title: | Study of Z boson production in PbPb collisions at √s(NN)=2.76 TeV |
Authors: | Chatrchyan, S Khachatryan, V Sirunyan, AM Tumasyan, A Adam, W Bergauer, T Dragicevic, M Ero, J Fabjan, C Friedl, M Fruhwirth, R Baillon, P Perera, L Rahmat, R Sanders, DA Summers, D Bloom, K Bose, S Butt, J Claes, DR Dominguez, A Kasieczka, G Ball, AH Duric, S Eads, M Keller, J Kelly, T Kravchenko, I Lazo-Flores, J Malbouisson, H Malik, S Snow, GR Baur, U Barney, D Godshalk, A Kadija, K Iashvili, I Jain, S Kharchilava, A Kumar, A Shipkowski, SP Smith, K Alverson, G Barberis, E Bell, AJ Baumgartel, D Boeriu, O Morovic, S Chasco, M Reucroft, S Swain, J Wood, D Zhang, J Anastassov, A Kubik, A Benedetti, D Odell, N Ofierzynski, RA Pollack, B Attikis, A Pozdnyakov, A Schmitt, M Stoynev, S Velasco, M Won, S Antonelli, L Bernet, C Berry, D Hildreth, M Jessop, C Karmgard, DJ Galanti, M Kolb, J Kolberg, T Lannon, K Luo, W Lynch, S Bialas, W Marinelli, N Morse, DM Pearson, T Ruchti, R Slaunwhite, J Mousa, J Valls, N Wayne, M Ziegler, J Bylsma, B Bloch, P Durkin, LS Gu, J Hill, C Killewald, P Kotov, K Rodenburg, M Nicolaou, C Williams, G Adam, N Berry, E Bocci, A Elmer, P Gerbaudo, D Halyo, V Hebda, P Hunt, A Jones, J Laird, E Ptochos, F Pegna, DL Marlow, D Bolognesi, S Medvedeva, T Mooney, M Olsen, J Piroue, P Quan, X Saka, H Stickland, D Tully, C Razis, PA Werner, JS Pagano, D Pol, ME Zuranski, A Acosta, JG Huang, XT Lopez, A Mendez, H Oliveros, S Vargas, JER Zatserklyaniy, A Alagoz, E Finger, M Bona, M Barnes, VE Bolla, G Borrello, L Bortoletto, D Everett, A Garfinkel, AF Gutay, L Hu, Z Jones, M Koybasi, O Breuker, H Kiesenhofer, W Finger, M Kress, M Laasanen, AT Leonardo, N Liu, C Maroussov, V Merkel, P Miller, DH Neumeister, N Brona, G Shipsey, I Silvers, D Assran, Y Svyatkovskiy, A Yoo, HD Zablocki, J Zheng, Y Jindal, P Parashar, N Boulahouache, C Bunkowski, K Cuplov, V Ecklund, KM Geurts, FJM Khalil, S Padley, BP Redjimi, R Roberts, J Zabel, J Betchart, B Bodek, A Camporesi, T Chung, YS Covarelli, R de Barbaro, P Demina, R Radi, A Eshaq, Y Flacher, H Garcia-Bellido, A Goldenzweig, P Gotra, Y Cerminara, G Han, J Harel, A Miner, DC Orbaker, D Petrillo, G Hektor, A Vishnevskiy, D Zielinski, M Bhatti, A Ciesielski, R Perez, JAC Demortier, L Goulianos, K Lungu, G Mesropian, C Yan, M Atramentov, O Kadastik, M Barker, A Duggan, D Gershtein, Y Cure, B Gray, R Halkiadakis, E Hidas, D Hits, D Lath, A Panwalkar, S Patel, R Muntel, M Richards, A Rose, K D'Enterria, D Schnetzer, S Somalwar, S Stone, R Thomas, S Cerizza, G Hollingsworth, M Spanier, S Yang, ZC Raidal, M York, A Krychkine, V De Roeck, A Asaadi, J Eusebi, R Gilmore, J Gurrola, A Kamon, T Khotilovich, V Montalvo, R Nguyen, CN Osipenkov, I Rebane, L Ghete, VM Pivarski, J Safonov, A Sengupta, S Tatarinov, A Toback, D Weinberger, M Akchurin, N Damgov, J Jeong, C Kovitanggoon, K Souza, MHG Azzolini, V Lee, SW Roh, Y Sill, A Volobouev, I Wigmans, R Yazgan, E Appelt, E Brownson, E Engh, D Di Guida, S Florez, C Krammer, M Eerola, P Gabella, W Issah, M Johns, W Kurt, P Maguire, C Melo, A 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Keywords: | Heavy-ion collisions;LHC |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | American Physical Society |
Citation: | Physical Review Letters 106(21): 212301, May 2011 |
Abstract: | A search for Z bosons in the μ+μ- decay channel has been performed in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, in a 7.2 μb-1 data sample. The number of opposite-sign muon pairs observed in the 60–120 GeV/c2 invariant mass range is 39, corresponding to a yield per unit of rapidity (y) and per minimum bias event of [33.8±5.5(stat)±4.4(syst)]×10-8, in the |y|<2.0 range. Rapidity, transverse momentum, and centrality dependencies are also measured. The results agree with next-to-leading order QCD calculations, scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. |
Description: | This is the pre-print version of the Published Article which can be accessed from the link below. |
URI: | http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/i21/e212301 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6080 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.212301 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
Appears in Collections: | Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers
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