PT Journal
AU LHCb Collaboration (Aaij, Rea
   Jaimes Elles, SJ
   Jashal, BK
   Martinez-Vidal, F
   Oyanguren, A
   Rebollo De Miguel, M
   Remon Alepuz, C
   Ruiz Vidal, J
   Sanderswood, I
TI Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at root(NN)-N-s=8.16 TeV
SO Journal of High Energy Physics
JI J. High Energy Phys.
PY 2023
BP 022
EP 37pp
VL 06
IS 6
DI 10.1007/JHEP06(2023)022
LA English
DE Electroweak Interaction; Heavy Ion Experiments; Heavy-Ion Collision
AB 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 root(NN)-N-s = 8.16TeV in 2016, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 30.8 nb(-1). The forward-backward ratio and the nuclear modification factors are measured together with the differential crosssection as functions of the Z boson rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame, the transverse momentum of the Z boson and a geometric variable phi*. The results are in good agreement with the predictions from nuclear parton distribution functions, providing strong constraining power at small Bjorken-x.
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