Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in proton-lead collisions at √sNN=8.16 TeV

作者：Aaij, R.; Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W.; Beteta, C. Abellan; Abudinen, F.; Ackernley, T.; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M.; Afsharnia, H.; Agapopoulou, C.; Aidala, C. A.; Aiola, S.; Ajaltouni, Z.; Akar, S.; Akiba, K.; Albrecht, J.; Alessio, F.; Alexander, M.; Alfonso Albero, A.; Aliouche, Z.; Cartelle, P. Alvarez; Amalric, R.; Amato, S.; Amey, J. L.; Amhis, Y.; An, L.; Anderlini, L.; Andersson, M.; Andreianov, A.; Andreotti, M.; Andreou, D.; Ao, D.; Archilli, F.; Artamonov, A.; Artuso, M.; Aslanides, E.

来源：JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, 2023, (6): 22.

DOI：10.1007/JHEP06(2023)022

• Electroweak Interaction
• Heavy Ion Experiments
• Heavy-Ion Collision

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.