Publication
Title
Study of Z boson production in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
 A search for Z bosons in the μ+μ- decay channel has been performed in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76  TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, in a 7.2  μb-1 data sample. The number of opposite-sign muon pairs observed in the 60120  GeV/c2 invariant mass range is 39, corresponding to a yield per unit of rapidity (y) and per minimum bias event of [33.8±5.5(stat)±4.4(syst)]×10-8, in the |y|<2.0 range. Rapidity, transverse momentum, and centrality dependencies are also measured. The results agree with next-to-leading order QCD calculations, scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review letters. - New York, N.Y.
Publication
New York, N.Y. : 2011
ISSN
0031-9007
Volume/pages
106:221(2011), p. 1-14
Article Reference
212301
ISI
000290895300004
Medium
E-only publicatie
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