| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8183842 | Nuclear Physics A | 2013 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
The production of electroweak bosons (photons, W and Z particles) in PbPb and pp collisions at s=2.76TeV per interacting nucleon pair has been measured with the CMS detector at the LHC. Direct photon production is studied using samples of isolated photons. W and Z bosons are reconstructed through their leptonic decay into muons. Their production rate in PbPb data is studied as a function of the centrality of the collision and compared to that in pp interactions, once normalized by the number of binary nucleon-nucleon interactions. The results are also compared to next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations.
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Authors
Begoña de la Cruz, CMS Collaboration CMS Collaboration,