TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement of the production and lepton charge asymmetry of W bosons in Pb+ Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
AU - Aad, G.
AU - Abbott, B.
AU - Abdallah, J.
AU - Abdel Khalek, S.
AU - Abdinov, O.
AU - Aben, R.
AU - Abi, B.
AU - Abolins, M.
AU - AbouZeid, O.S.
AU - Abramowicz, H.
AU - Dam, Mogens
AU - Hansen, Jørn Dines
AU - Hansen, Jørgen Beck
AU - Xella, Stefania
AU - Hansen, Peter Henrik
AU - Petersen, Troels Christian
AU - Thomsen, Lotte Ansgaard
AU - Mehlhase, S.
AU - Jørgensen, Morten Dam
AU - Pingel, Almut Maria
AU - Løvschall-Jensen, Ask Emil
AU - Diaz, M. A.
AU - Monk, James William
AU - Pedersen, M.
AU - Wiglesworth, Graig
AU - Galster, Gorm Aske Gram Krohn
AU - Simonyan, Margar
PY - 2015/1/22
Y1 - 2015/1/22
N2 - A measurement of W boson production in lead-lead collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV is presented. It is based on the analysis of data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.14 nb-1 and 0.15 nb-1 in the muon and electron decay channels, respectively. The differential production yields and lepton charge asymmetry are each measured as a function of the average number of participating nucleons ‹Npart› and absolute pseudorapidity of the charged lepton. The results are compared to predictions based on next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. These measurements are, in principle, sensitive to possible nuclear modifications to the parton distribution functions and also provide information on scaling of W boson production in multi-nucleon systems.
AB - A measurement of W boson production in lead-lead collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV is presented. It is based on the analysis of data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.14 nb-1 and 0.15 nb-1 in the muon and electron decay channels, respectively. The differential production yields and lepton charge asymmetry are each measured as a function of the average number of participating nucleons ‹Npart› and absolute pseudorapidity of the charged lepton. The results are compared to predictions based on next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. These measurements are, in principle, sensitive to possible nuclear modifications to the parton distribution functions and also provide information on scaling of W boson production in multi-nucleon systems.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3231-6
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3231-6
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 25983646
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 75
JO - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
JF - The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
IS - 1
M1 - 23
ER -