2013/10/29 by Michael Gardner
Physics and Astronomy · #Boson #Compact Muon Solenoid #Electroweak interaction #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Measure (data warehouse) #Muon #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Production (economics) #nucl-ex
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/509/1/012071
published in Journal of Physics Conference Series 509, 012071 (IOP Publishing) · 4 pages, 6 figures, for the 2013 Strangeness in Quark Matter Conference held in Birmingham, U.K
arxiv created 2013/10/29 · openalex publication_date 2014/05/07 · arxiv updated 2015/06/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is fully equipped to measure leptonic decays of electroweak probes in the high multiplicity environment of nucleus-nucleus collisions. Electroweak boson production is an important benchmark process at hadron colliders. Precise measurements of W and Z production in heavy-ion collisions can help to constrain nuclear PDFs as well as serve as a standard candle of the initial state in PbPb collisions at the LHC energies. The inclusive and differential measurements of the Z boson yield in the muon and electron decay channel will be presented, establishing that no modification is observed with respect to pp collisions, scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions.