@article{a2bfa669db474bf2a80a448c96caad40,
title = "Study of Z production in PbPb and pp collisions at (Formula presented.) TeV in the dimuon and dielectron decay channels",
abstract = "Abstract: The production of Z bosons is studied in the dimuon and dielectron decay channels in PbPb and pp collisions at (Formula presented.) TeV, using data collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC. The PbPb data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of about 166 μb−1, while the pp data sample collected in 2013 at the same nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy has an integrated luminosity of 5.4 pb−1. The Z boson yield is measured as a function of rapidity, transverse momentum, and collision centrality. The ratio of PbPb to pp yields, scaled by the number of inelastic nucleon-nucleon collisions, is found to be 1.06 ± 0.05 (stat) ± 0.08 (syst) in the dimuon channel and 1.02 ± 0.08 (stat) ± 0.15 (syst) in the dielectron channel, for centrality-integrated Z boson production. This binary collision scaling is seen to hold in the entire kinematic region studied, as expected for a colourless probe that is unaffected by the hot and dense QCD medium produced in heavy ion collisions.",
keywords = "Heavy Ions, Heavy-ion collision, Particle and resonance production, proton-proton scattering",
author = "{The CMS collaboration}, {CMS collaboration} and S. Chatrchyan and V. Khachatryan and Sirunyan, {A. M.} and W. Adam and T. Bergauer and M. Dragicevic and J. Er{\"o} and C. Fabjan and M. Friedl and R. Fr{\"u}hwirth and Ghete, {V. M.} and C. Hartl and N. H{\"o}rmann and J. Hrubec and M. Jeitler and W. Kiesenhofer and V. Kn{\"u}nz and M. Krammer and I. Kr{\"a}tschmer and D. Liko and I. Mikulec and D. Rabady and B. Rahbaran and H. Rohringer and R. Sch{\"o}fbeck and J. Strauss and A. Taurok and W. Treberer-Treberspurg and W. Waltenberger and Wulz, {C. E.} and V. Mossolov and N. Shumeiko and {Suarez Gonzalez}, J. and S. Alderweireldt and M. Bansal and S. Bansal and T. Cornelis and {De Wolf}, {E. A.} and X. Janssen and A. Knutsson and S. Luyckx and S. Ochesanu and B. Roland and R. Rougny and {Van De Klundert}, M. and {Van Haevermaet}, H. and {Van Mechelen}, P. and {Van Remortel}, N. and {Van Spilbeeck}, A. and A. Radi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015, The Author(s).",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/JHEP03(2015)022",
language = "English",
volume = "2015",
journal = "Journal of High Energy Physics",
issn = "1126-6708",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
number = "3",
}