TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in pp collisions at s = 5.02 TeV
AU - The LHCb collaboration
AU - Aaij, R.
AU - Abdelmotteleb, A. S.W.
AU - Abellan Beteta, C.
AU - Abudinén, F.
AU - Ackernley, T.
AU - Adeva, B.
AU - Adinolfi, M.
AU - Adlarson, P.
AU - Afsharnia, H.
AU - Agapopoulou, C.
AU - Aidala, C. A.
AU - Ajaltouni, Z.
AU - Akar, S.
AU - Akiba, K.
AU - Albicocco, P.
AU - Albrecht, J.
AU - Alessio, F.
AU - Alexander, M.
AU - Alfonso Albero, A.
AU - Aliouche, Z.
AU - Alvarez Cartelle, P.
AU - Amalric, R.
AU - Amato, S.
AU - Amey, J. L.
AU - Amhis, Y.
AU - An, L.
AU - Anderlini, L.
AU - Andersson, M.
AU - Andreianov, A.
AU - Andreola, P.
AU - Andreotti, M.
AU - Andreou, D.
AU - Ao, D.
AU - Archilli, F.
AU - Artamonov, A.
AU - Artuso, M.
AU - Aslanides, E.
AU - Atzeni, M.
AU - Audurier, B.
AU - Bachiller Perea, I.
AU - Bachmann, S.
AU - Bachmayer, M.
AU - Back, J. J.
AU - Bailly-reyre, A.
AU - Baladron Rodriguez, P.
AU - Balagura, V.
AU - Baldini, W.
AU - Baptista de Souza Leite, J.
AU - Barbetti, M.
AU - Milanes, D. A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/2
Y1 - 2024/2
N2 - The first measurement of the Z boson production cross-section at centre-of-mass energy s = 5.02 TeV in the forward region is reported, using pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment in year 2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 100 ± 2 pb−1. The production cross-section is measured for final-state muons in the pseudorapidity range 2.0 < η < 4.5 with transverse momentum pT> 20 GeV/c. The integrated cross-section is determined to be (Formula presented.) for the di-muon invariant mass in the range 60 < Mμμ< 120 GeV/c2. This result and the differential cross-section results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant. Based on a previous LHCb measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in pPb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV, the nuclear modification factor RpPb is measured for the first time at this energy. The measured values are 1.2−0.3+0.5 (stat) ± 0.1(syst) in the forward region (1.53 μ∗< 4.03) and 3.6−0.9+1.6 (stat) ± 0.2(syst) in the backward region (−4.97 μ∗< −2.47), where yμ∗ represents the muon rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame. (Figure presented.)
AB - The first measurement of the Z boson production cross-section at centre-of-mass energy s = 5.02 TeV in the forward region is reported, using pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment in year 2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 100 ± 2 pb−1. The production cross-section is measured for final-state muons in the pseudorapidity range 2.0 < η < 4.5 with transverse momentum pT> 20 GeV/c. The integrated cross-section is determined to be (Formula presented.) for the di-muon invariant mass in the range 60 < Mμμ< 120 GeV/c2. This result and the differential cross-section results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant. Based on a previous LHCb measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in pPb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV, the nuclear modification factor RpPb is measured for the first time at this energy. The measured values are 1.2−0.3+0.5 (stat) ± 0.1(syst) in the forward region (1.53 μ∗< 4.03) and 3.6−0.9+1.6 (stat) ± 0.2(syst) in the backward region (−4.97 μ∗< −2.47), where yμ∗ represents the muon rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame. (Figure presented.)
KW - Electroweak Interaction
KW - Hadron-Hadron Scattering
KW - QCD
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP02(2024)070
DO - 10.1007/JHEP02(2024)070
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85195684451
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2024
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 70
ER -