The CMS experiment at the LHC has measured the differential cross sections of Z bosons decaying to pairs of leptons, as functions of transverse momentum and rapidity, in lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The measured Z boson elliptic azimuthal anisotropy coefficient is compatible with zero, showing that Z bosons do not experience significant final-state interactions in the medium produced in the collision. Yields of Z bosons are compared to Glauber model predictions and are found to deviate from these expectations in peripheral collisions, indicating the presence of initial collision geometry and centrality selection effects. The precision of the measurement allows, for the first time, for a data-driven determination of the nucleon-nucleon integrated luminosity as a function of lead-lead centrality, thereby eliminating the need for its estimation based on a Glauber model.
TY - JOUR
AU - Sirunyan, A. M.
AU - Tumasyan, A.
AU - Adam, W.
AU - Ambrogi, F.
AU - Bergauer, T.
AU - Adžić, Petar
AU - Ćirković, Predrag
AU - Đorđević, Miloš
AU - Milenović, Predrag
AU - Milošević, Jovan
PY - 2021
UR - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/10043
AB - The CMS experiment at the LHC has measured the differential cross sections of Z bosons decaying to pairs of leptons, as functions of transverse momentum and rapidity, in lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The measured Z boson elliptic azimuthal anisotropy coefficient is compatible with zero, showing that Z bosons do not experience significant final-state interactions in the medium produced in the collision. Yields of Z bosons are compared to Glauber model predictions and are found to deviate from these expectations in peripheral collisions, indicating the presence of initial collision geometry and centrality selection effects. The precision of the measurement allows, for the first time, for a data-driven determination of the nucleon-nucleon integrated luminosity as a function of lead-lead centrality, thereby eliminating the need for its estimation based on a Glauber model.
T2 - Physical Review Letters
T1 - Constraints on the Initial State of Pb-Pb Collisions via Measurements of Z -Boson Yields and Azimuthal Anisotropy at sNN =5.02 TeV
VL - 127
SP - 102002
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102002
ER -
@article{
author = "Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. and Adam, W. and Ambrogi, F. and Bergauer, T. and Adžić, Petar and Ćirković, Predrag and Đorđević, Miloš and Milenović, Predrag and Milošević, Jovan",
year = "2021",
abstract = "The CMS experiment at the LHC has measured the differential cross sections of Z bosons decaying to pairs of leptons, as functions of transverse momentum and rapidity, in lead-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV. The measured Z boson elliptic azimuthal anisotropy coefficient is compatible with zero, showing that Z bosons do not experience significant final-state interactions in the medium produced in the collision. Yields of Z bosons are compared to Glauber model predictions and are found to deviate from these expectations in peripheral collisions, indicating the presence of initial collision geometry and centrality selection effects. The precision of the measurement allows, for the first time, for a data-driven determination of the nucleon-nucleon integrated luminosity as a function of lead-lead centrality, thereby eliminating the need for its estimation based on a Glauber model.",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
title = "Constraints on the Initial State of Pb-Pb Collisions via Measurements of Z -Boson Yields and Azimuthal Anisotropy at sNN =5.02 TeV",
volume = "127",
pages = "102002",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102002"
}
Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Adžić, P., Ćirković, P., Đorđević, M., Milenović, P.,& Milošević, J.. (2021). Constraints on the Initial State of Pb-Pb Collisions via Measurements of Z -Boson Yields and Azimuthal Anisotropy at sNN =5.02 TeV. in Physical Review Letters, 127, 102002.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102002
Sirunyan A, Tumasyan A, Adam W, Ambrogi F, Bergauer T, Adžić P, Ćirković P, Đorđević M, Milenović P, Milošević J. Constraints on the Initial State of Pb-Pb Collisions via Measurements of Z -Boson Yields and Azimuthal Anisotropy at sNN =5.02 TeV. in Physical Review Letters. 2021;127:102002.
doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102002 .
Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A., Adam, W., Ambrogi, F., Bergauer, T., Adžić, Petar, Ćirković, Predrag, Đorđević, Miloš, Milenović, Predrag, Milošević, Jovan, "Constraints on the Initial State of Pb-Pb Collisions via Measurements of Z -Boson Yields and Azimuthal Anisotropy at sNN =5.02 TeV" in Physical Review Letters, 127 (2021):102002,
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.102002 . .
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