Study of W boson production in PbPb and pp collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV
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Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Li, W.; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Rudolph, Matthew Scott; Stephans, George S. F.; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Wyslouch, Boleslaw; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Yoon, A. S.; Zanetti, Marco; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Christof E; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Sumorok, Konstanty C; Wolf, Roger; Xie, Si; Yang, Mingming; Bauer, Gerry P; Dutta, Valentina; ... Show more Show less![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/92048/Chatrchyan-2012-Study%20of%20W%20boson%20pro.pdf.jpg?sequence=4&isAllowed=y)
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A measurement is presented of W-boson production in PbPb collisions carried out at a nucleon–nucleon (NN) centre-of-mass energy √s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV at the LHC using the CMS detector. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 μb[superscript −1], the number of W→μ[subscript νμ] decays is extracted in the region of muon pseudorapidity |η[superscript μ]| <2.1 and transverse momentum p[μ over T] > 25 [GeV over c]. Yields of muons found per unit of pseudorapidity correspond to (159±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10[superscript −8]W[superscript +] and (154±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10[superscript −8]W[superscript -] bosons per minimum-bias PbPb collision. The dependence of W production on the centrality of PbPb collisions is consistent with a scaling of the yield by the number of incoherent NN collisions. The yield of W bosons is also studied in a sample of pp interactions at √s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 231 nb[superscript −1]. The individual W[superscript +] and W[superscript −] yields in PbPb and pp collisions are found to agree, once the neutron and proton content in Pb nuclei is taken into account. Likewise, the difference observed in the dependence of the positive and negative muon production on pseudorapidity is consistent with next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations.
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2012-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of ScienceJournal
Physics Letters B
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Elsevier
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Chatrchyan, S., V. Khachatryan, A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic, et al. “Study of W Boson Production in PbPb and Pp Collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 2.76 TeV.” Physics Letters B 715, no. 1–3 (August 2012): 66–87. © 2012 CERN
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03702693