%0 Journal Article
%T Z boson production in Pb plus Pb collisions at root S-NN=5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
%A Alvarez Piqueras, D.
%A Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Barranco Navarro, L.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo, F. L.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Cerda Alberich, L.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Escobar, C.
%A Estrada Pastor, O.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fullana Torregrosa, E.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Jimenez Pena, J.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
%A Madaffari, D.
%A Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Melini, D.
%A Miñano, M.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Rodriguez Bosca, S.
%A Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
%A Ruiz-Martinez, A.
%A Salt, J.
%A Santra, A.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physics Letters B
%D 2020
%V 802
%I Elsevier
%@ 0370-2693
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2020
%O WOS:000515091400074
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=4347), last updated on Fri, 10 Apr 2020 11:07:19 +0000
%X The production yield of Z bosons is measured in the electron and muon decay channels in Pb+Pb collisions at /S-NN = 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Data from the 2015 LHC run corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.49 nb(-1) are used for the analysis. The Z boson yield, normalised by the total number of minimum-bias events and the mean nuclear thickness function, is measured as a function of dilepton rapidity and event centrality. The measurements in Pb+Pb collisions are compared with similar measurements made in proton-proton collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy. The nuclear modification factor is found to be consistent with unity for all centrality intervals. The results are compared with theoretical predictions obtained at next-to-leading order using nucleon and nuclear parton distribution functions. The normalised Z boson yields in Pb+Pb collisions lie 1-3a above the predictions. The nuclear modification factor measured as a function of rapidity agrees with unity and is consistent with a next-to-leading-order QCD calculation including the isospin effect.
%R 10.1018/j.physletb.2020.135262
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13396
%U https://doi.org/10.1018/j.physletb.2020.135262
%P 135262-23pp