Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at sNN−−−√=8.16TeV

LHCb Collaboration; Simone Bifani; Ryan Calladine; Naomi Cooke; Jonathan Plews; Niladribihari Sahoo; Mark Slater; Mark Slater; Paul Swallow; D. J. D. Thompson

doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2023)022

Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at sNN−−−√=8.16TeV

LHCb Collaboration, Simone Bifani, Ryan Calladine, Naomi Cooke, Jonathan Plews, Niladribihari Sahoo, Mark Slater, Mark Slater, Paul Swallow, D. J. D. Thompson

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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 sNN−−−√=8.16TeV in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 30.8nb−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 ϕ∗. The results are in good agreement with the predictions from nuclear parton distribution functions, providing strong constraining power at small Bjorken-x.

Original language	English
Article number	22
Pages (from-to)	37
Journal	JHEP
Volume	2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2023)022
Publication status	Published - 5 Jun 2023

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Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at sNN−−−√=8.16TeV

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