Data di Pubblicazione:
2012
Abstract:
A measurement is presented of W-boson production in PbPb collisions carried out at a nucleon–nucleon (NN) centre-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV at the LHC using the CMS detector. In data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 μb−1, the number of W→μνμ decays is extracted in the region of muon pseudorapidity |ημ|<2.1 and transverse momentum pTμ>25 GeV/c. Yields of muons found per unit of pseudorapidity correspond to (159±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10^−8 W+ and (154±10(stat.)±12(syst.))×10^−8 W− 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 sqrt(s)=2.76 TeV corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 231 nb−1. The individual W+ and W− 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.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Elenco autori:
S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A.M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam;T. Bergauer;M. Dragicevic;J. Erö;C. Fabjan;M. Friedl;R. Frühwirth;V.M. Ghete;J. Hammer;N. Hörmann;J. Hrubec;M. Jeitler;W. Kiesenhofer;V. Knünz;M. Krammer;D. Liko;I. Mikulec;M. Pernicka;B. Rahbaran;C. Rohringer;H. Rohringer;R. Schöfbeck;J. Strauss;A. Taurok;P. Wagner;W. Waltenberger;G. Walzel;E. Widl;C.-E. Wulz;V. Mossolov;N. Shumeiko;J. Suarez Gonzalez;S. Bansal;T. Cornelis;E.A. De Wolf;X. Janssen;S. Luyckx;T. Maes;L. Mucibello;S. Ochesanu;B. Roland;R. Rougny;M. Selvaggi;Z. Staykova;H. Van Haevermaet;P. Van Mechelen;N. Van Remortel;A. Van Spilbeeck;F. Blekman;S. Blyweert;J. DʼHondt;R. Gonzalez Suarez;A. Kalogeropoulos;M. Maes;A. Olbrechts;W. Van Doninck;P. Van Mulders;G.P. Van Onsem;I. Villella;O. Charaf;B. Clerbaux;G. De Lentdecker;V. Dero;A.P.R. Gay;T. Hreus;A. Léonard;P.E. Marage;T. Reis;L. Thomas;C. Vander Velde;P. Vanlaer;J. Wang;V. Adler;K. Beernaert;A. Cimmino;S. Costantini;G. Garcia;M. Grunewald;B. Klein;J. Lellouch;A. Marinov;J. Mccartin;A.A. Ocampo Rios;D. Ryckbosch;N. Strobbe;F. Thyssen;M. Tytgat;L. Vanelderen;P. Verwilligen;S. Walsh;E. Yazgan;N. Zaganidis;S. Basegmez;G. Bruno;R. Castello;A. Caudron;L. Ceard;C. Delaere;T. du Pree;D. Favart;L. Forthomme;A. Giammanco;J. Hollar;V. Lemaitre;J. Liao;O. Militaru;C. Nuttens;D. Pagano;L. Perrini;A. Pin;K. Piotrzkowski;N. Schul;J.M. Vizan Garcia;N. Beliy;T. Caebergs;E. Daubie;G.H. Hammad;G.A. Alves;M. Correa Martins Junior;D. De Jesus Damiao;T. Martins;M.E. Pol;M.H.G. Souza;W.L. Aldá Júnior;W. Carvalho;A. Custódio;E.M. Da Costa;C. De Oliveira Martins;S. Fonseca De Souza;D. Matos Figueiredo;L. Mundim;H. Nogima;V. Oguri;W.L. Prado Da Silva;A. Santoro;L. Soares Jorge;A. Sznajder;C.A. Bernardes;F.A. Dias;T.R. Fernandez Perez Tomei;E.M. Gregores;C. Lagana;F. Marinho;P.G. Mercadante;S.F. Novaes;Sandra S. Padula;V. Genchev;P. Iaydjiev;S. Piperov;M. Rodozov;S. Stoykova;G. Sultanov;V. Tcholakov;R. Trayanov;M. Vutova;A. Dimitrov;R. Hadjiiska;V. Kozhuharov;L. Litov;B. Pavlov;P. Petkov;J.G. Bian;G.M. Chen;H.S. Chen;C.H. Jiang;D. Liang;S. Liang;X. Meng;J. Tao;J. Wang;X. Wang;Z. Wang;H. Xiao;M. Xu;J. Zang;Z. Zhang;C. Asawatangtrakuldee;Y. Ban;S. Guo;Y. Guo;W. Li;S. Liu;Y. Mao;S.J. Qian;H. Teng;S. Wang;B. Zhu;W. Zou;C. Avila;J.P. Gomez;B. Gomez Moreno;A.F. Osorio Oliveros;J.C. Sanabria;N. Godinovic;D. Lelas;R. Plestina;D. Polic;I. Puljak;Z. Antunovic;M. Kovac;V. Brigljevic;S. Duric;K. Kadija;J. Luetic;S. Morovic;A. Attikis;M. Galanti;G. Mavromanolakis;J. Mousa;C. Nicolaou;F. Ptochos;P.A. Razis;M. Finger;M. Finger;Y. Assran;S. Elgammal;A. Ellithi Kamel;S. Khalil;M.A. Mahmoud;A. Radi;M. Kadastik;M. Müntel;M. Raidal;L. Rebane;A. Tiko;V. Azzolini;P. Eerola;G. Fedi;M. Voutilainen;J. Härkönen;A. Heikkinen;V. Karimäki;R. Kinnunen;M.J. Kortelainen;T. Lampén;K. Lassila-Perini;S. Lehti;T. Lindén;P. Luukka;T. Mäenpää;T. Peltola;E. Tuominen;J. Tuominiemi;E. Tuovinen;D. Ungaro;L. Wendland;K. Banzuzi;A. Korpela;T. Tuuva;M. Besancon;S. Choudhury;M. Dejardin;D. Denegri;B. Fabbro;J.L. Faure;F. Ferri;S. Ganjour;A. Givernaud;P. Gras;G. Hamel de Monchenault;P. Jarry;E. Locci;J. Malcles;L. Millischer;A. Nayak;J. Rander;A. Rosowsky;I. Shreyber;M. Titov;S. Baffioni;F. Beaudette;L. Benhabib;L. Bianchini;M. Bluj;C. Broutin;P. Busson;C. Charlot;N. Daci;T. Dahms;L. Dobrzynski;R. Granier de Cassagnac;M. Haguenauer;P. Miné;C. Mironov;M. Nguyen;C. Ochando;P. Paganini;D. Sabes;R. Salerno;Y. Sirois;C. Veelken;A. Zabi;J.-L. Agram;J. Andrea;D. Bloch;D. Bodin;J.-M. Brom;M. Cardaci;E.C. Chabert;C. Collard;E. Conte;F. Drouhin;C. Ferro;J.-C. Fontaine;D. Gelé;U. Goerlach;P. Juillot;M. Karim;A.-C. Le Bihan;P.
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