TY  - JOUR
AU  - ATLAS Collaboration (Aad, G. et al
AU  - Alvarez Piqueras, D.
AU  - Aparisi Pozo, J. A.
AU  - Bailey, A. J.
AU  - Barranco Navarro, L.
AU  - Cabrera Urban, S.
AU  - Castillo, F. L.
AU  - Castillo Gimenez, V.
AU  - Cerda Alberich, L.
AU  - Costa, M. J.
AU  - Escobar, C.
AU  - Estrada Pastor, O.
AU  - Ferrer, A.
AU  - Fiorini, L.
AU  - Fullana Torregrosa, E.
AU  - Fuster, J.
AU  - Garcia, C.
AU  - Garcia Navarro, J. E.
AU  - Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
AU  - Higon-Rodriguez, E.
AU  - Jimenez Pena, J.
AU  - Lacasta, C.
AU  - Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
AU  - Madaffari, D.
AU  - Mamuzic, J.
AU  - Marti-Garcia, S.
AU  - Melini, D.
AU  - Miñano, M.
AU  - Mitsou, V. A.
AU  - Rodriguez Bosca, S.
AU  - Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
AU  - Ruiz-Martinez, A.
AU  - Salt, J.
AU  - Santra, A.
AU  - Soldevila, U.
AU  - Sanchez, J.
AU  - Valero, A.
AU  - Valls Ferrer, J. A.
AU  - Vos, M.
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Z boson production in Pb plus Pb collisions at root S-NN=5.02 TeV measured by the ATLAS experiment
T2  - Phys. Lett. B
JO  - Physics Letters B
SP  - 135262
EP  - 23pp
VL  - 802
PB  - Elsevier
AB  - 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.
SN  - 0370-2693
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13396
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1018/j.physletb.2020.135262
DO  - 10.1018/j.physletb.2020.135262
LA  - English
N1  - WOS:000515091400074
ID  - ATLASCollaborationAad_etal2020
ER  -