TY - JOUR
T1 - W and Z boson production in p-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV
AU - Adam, J.
AU - Alexandre, D.
AU - Andrews, H. A.
AU - Evans, David
AU - Graham, Katie
AU - Jones, Peter
AU - Jusko, Anton
AU - Krivda, Marian
AU - Lietava, Roman
AU - Villalobos Baillie, Orlando
AU - Zardoshti, Nima
AU - ALICE Collaboration
PY - 2017/2/15
Y1 - 2017/2/15
N2 - The W and Z boson production was measured via the muonic decay channelin proton-lead collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider with the ALICE detector. The measurement covers backward (−4.46 < ycms < −2.96) and forward (2.03 < ycms < 3.53) rapidity regions, corresponding to Pb-going and p-going directions, respectively. The Z-boson production cross section, with dimuon invariant mass of 60 < mµµ < 120 GeV/c2 and muon transverse momentum (pµT) larger than 20 GeV/c, is measured. The production cross section and charge asymmetry of muons from W-boson decays with pµT > 10 GeV/c are determined. The results are compared to theoretical calculationsboth with and without including the nuclear modification of the parton distribution functions. The W-boson production is also studied as a function of the collision centrality: the cross section of muons from W-boson decays is found to scale with the average number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions within uncertainties.
AB - The W and Z boson production was measured via the muonic decay channelin proton-lead collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider with the ALICE detector. The measurement covers backward (−4.46 < ycms < −2.96) and forward (2.03 < ycms < 3.53) rapidity regions, corresponding to Pb-going and p-going directions, respectively. The Z-boson production cross section, with dimuon invariant mass of 60 < mµµ < 120 GeV/c2 and muon transverse momentum (pµT) larger than 20 GeV/c, is measured. The production cross section and charge asymmetry of muons from W-boson decays with pµT > 10 GeV/c are determined. The results are compared to theoretical calculationsboth with and without including the nuclear modification of the parton distribution functions. The W-boson production is also studied as a function of the collision centrality: the cross section of muons from W-boson decays is found to scale with the average number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions within uncertainties.
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP02(2017)077
DO - 10.1007/JHEP02(2017)077
M3 - Article
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 2017
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 77
ER -