Journal article
Study of W boson production in pPb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV
Physics letters. B, Vol.750, pp.565-586
11/01/2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.057
Abstract
The first study of W boson production in pPb collisions is presented, for bosons decaying to a muon or electron, and a neutrino. The measurements are based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 34.6 nb−1 at a nucleon–nucleon centre-of-mass energy of ,collected by the CMS experiment. The W boson differential cross sections, lepton charge asymmetry, and forward–backward asymmetries are measured for leptons of transverse momentum exceeding 25 GeV/c, and as a function of the lepton pseudorapidity in the range. Deviations from the expectations based on currently available parton distribution functions are observed, showing the need for including W boson data in nuclear parton distribution global fits.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Study of W boson production in pPb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV
- Creators
- Vardan Khachatryan - Yerevan Physics InstituteCécile Caillol - Université Libre de BruxellesBarbara Clerbaux - Université Libre de BruxellesGilles LentdeckerDidar Dobur - Université Libre de BruxellesLaurent Favart - Université Libre de BruxellesArnaud GayAnastasia Grebenyuk - Université Libre de BruxellesAlexandre Leonard - Université Libre de BruxellesAbdollah Mohammadi - Université Libre de BruxellesLuca Pernie - Université Libre de BruxellesAidan Sean Randle-CondeThomas Reis - Université Libre de BruxellesTomislav Seva - Université Libre de BruxellesLaurent Thomas - Université Libre de BruxellesCatherine Vander VeldeJian WangFlorian Zenoni - Université Libre de BruxellesCMS Collaboration
- Contributors
- Y Onel (Contributor) - University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Physics letters. B, Vol.750, pp.565-586
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.09.057
- ISSN
- 0370-2693
- eISSN
- 1873-2445
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Grant note
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- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2015
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199752102771
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