Authors:
Thomas Bergauer, Marko Dragicevic, Dietrich Liko, Jochen Schieck, Wolfgang Waltenberger, Vladimir Chekhovsky, Freya Blekman, Emil Sørensen Bols, Jorgen D'Hondt, Stefaan Tavernier, Andrey Popov, Elizabeth Starling, C. Vander Velde, Claudio Caputo, Pi (...)
Thomas Bergauer, Marko Dragicevic, Dietrich Liko, Jochen Schieck, Wolfgang Waltenberger, Vladimir Chekhovsky, Freya Blekman, Emil Sørensen Bols, Jorgen D'Hondt, Stefaan Tavernier, Andrey Popov, Elizabeth Starling, C. Vander Velde, Claudio Caputo, Pieter David, Christophe Delaere, Andrea Giammanco, Pietro Vischia, Gilvan Alves, Luiz Mundim, Andre Sznajder, Cesar Augusto Bernardes, Luigi Calligaris, Sergio F Novaes, Sandra S. Padula, Mariana Shopova, Leander Litov, Emilien Chapon, Junquan Tao, Y. Ban, Z. Y. You, J. Mejia Guisao, C. A. Salazar González, Nikola Godinovic, Ivica Puljak, Zeljko Antunovic, Vuko Brigljevic, A. Starodumov, Gouranga Kole, Georgios Mavromanolakis, Jehad Mousa, Fotios Ptochos, Halil Saka, Ashraf Mohamed, Sandeep Bhowmik, Ram Krishna Dewanjee, Martti Raidal, Christian Veelken, Paula Eerola, Laurent Forthomme, Henning Kirschenmann, Francisco Garcia, Min Suk Kim, Tapio Lampén, Santeri Laurila, Hannu Siikonen, Eija Tuominen, Chiara Amendola, Fabrice Couderc, Jean-Louis Faure, Florian Beaudette, P. Busson, Inna Kucher, Pascal Paganini, Amina Zghiche, Jean-Laurent Agram, Jeremy Andrea, Caroline Collard, Antoine Lesauvage, Morgan Lethuillier, Arsen Khvedelidze, Zviad Tsamalaidze, Lutz Feld, Danilo Meuser, Marius Preuten, Martin Erdmann, Philipp Millet, Spandan Mondal, Tobias Pook, Hans Reithler, Simon Christoph Schuler, Sebastian Wiedenbeck, Debarati Roy, A. J. Campbell, Vladyslav Danilov, Alexander Grohsjean, Ali Harb, Abideh Jafari, A. Kasem, Matthias Kasemann, Marino Missiroli, Joachim Mnich, Valerie Scheurer, Lisa Benato, Aliakbar Ebrahimi, Erika Garutti, Paolo Gunnellini, Johannes Haller, Anastasia Karavdina, Robert Klanner, V. Kutzner, Aliya Nigamova, Peter Schleper, Benedikt Vormwald, K. El Morabit, Manuel Giffels, Christoph Heidecker, S. Mitra, G. Quast, Klaus Rabbertz, Daniel Savoiu, Matthias Schröder, Ralf Ulrich, P. Kontaxakis, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Márton Bartók, Tamas Novak, Vipin Bhatnagar, Aashaq Shah, Shalini Thakur, Prafulla Kumar Behera, Raghunath Pradhan, Prabhat Ranjan Pujahari, Lalit Mohan Pant, Prashant Shukla, Tariq Aziz, Kunal Kothekar, Shirin Chenarani, Marta Felcini, Martin Grunewald, Anna Colaleo, Walaa Elmetenawee, Muhammad Gul, Samet Lezki, Gabriella Pugliese, Federica Maria Simone, Giovanni Abbiendi, L. Borgonovi, Marco Cuffiani, Tommaso Diotalevi, F. L. Fabbri, Paolo Giacomelli, Luca Giommi, Claudio Grandi, Andrea Perrotta, Nicolò Tosi, Salvatore Costa, Cristina Tuve, Antonio Cassese, Rudy Ceccarelli, Raffaello D'Alessandro, Giacomo Sguazzoni, M. Bozzo, Fabrizio Ferro, Silvano Tosi, Alessio Ghezzi, Pietro Govoni, Sandra Malvezzi, Fabio Monti, Daniele Pedrini, Stefano Ragazzi, Davide Zuolo, Salvatore Buontempo, Francesco Fienga, Biagio Rossi, Crisostomo Sciacca, Patrizia Azzi, Dario Bisello, Giles Strong, Marco Zanetti, Alberto Zucchetta, Chiara Aime, Ilaria Vai, D. Ciangottini, Paolo Lariccia, Valentina Mariani, Francesco Moscatelli, Daniele Spiga, Konstantin Androsov, Paolo Azzurri, Franco Ligabue, Elisabetta Manca, Gabriel Ramirez-Sanchez, Paolo Spagnolo, Andrea Venturi, Francesca Cavallari, Paolo Meridiani, Claudio Quaranta, Francesco Santanastasio, Nicola Amapane, Michele Arneodo, Ernesto Migliore, Nadia Pastrone, M. Pelliccioni, Amedeo Staiano, Tae Jeong Kim, Junghwan Goh, Y. D. Kim, Sihyun Jeon, Hyejin Kwon, Kyungwook Nam, Minseok Oh, Inseok Yoon, Dajeong Jeon, Ian Watson, Hwi Dong Yoo, Aurelijus Rinkevicius, S. Carrillo Moreno, Leszek Grzanka, Maciej Malawski, Bożena Boimska, Artur Kalinowski, Marcin Konecki, Marek Walczak, Pietro Faccioli, Nuno Leonardo, Maria Savina, Vladimir Gavrilov, Anton Stepennov, Alexander Zhokin, Pavel Parygin, Sergey Polikarpov, Yuri Skovpen, Igor Bayshev, Aleksandr Iuzhakov, Evgueni Tcherniaev, Predrag Cirkovic, Milos Dordevic, Cristina Fernandez Bedoya, J. A. Brochero Cifuentes, Maria Cepeda, Dermot Moran, A. Pérez-Calero Yzquierdo, Ignacio Redondo, Javier Cuevas, S. Sanchez Cruz, C. Martinez Rivero, Francesca Ricci-Tam, Alberto Ruiz-Jimeno, Ivan Vila, Welathantri Gd Dharmaratna, Thea Klaeboe Aarrestad, Bora Akgun, Georg Auzinger, Austin Ball, Michele Bianco, Pierluigi Bortignon, Edoardo Bossini, Tiziano Camporesi, Leonardo Cristella, Francesco Fallavollita, Daniele Fasanella, Sara Fiorendi, Clemens Lange, Carlos Lourenco, L. Malgeri, Andrea Massironi, Emilio Meschi, Jennifer Ngadiuba, Jeremi Niedziela, Giovanni Petrucciani, Andreas Pfeiffer, Jakob Salfeld-Nebgen, Jan Steggemann, Vittorio Raoul Tavolaro, Adish Vartak, Lea Caminada, Malte Backhaus, Alessandro Calandri, Michael Dittmar, Mauro Donegà, Tomasz Gadek, Riccardo Andrea Manzoni, Simone Pigazzini, Myriam Schönenberger, Rainer Wallny, Claude Amsler, Cristina Botta, Vinicius Massami Mikuni, Korbinian Schweiger, Sébastien Wertz, Shin-Shan Yu, P. Chang, Andreas Psallidas, Efe Yazgan, Yalcin Guler, Ugur Kiminsu, Kadri Ozdemir, Ali Eren Simsek, Ibrahim Soner Zorbakir, Caglar Zorbilmez, Erhan Gülmez, Altan Cakir, Leonid Levchuk, Simone Bologna, David Cussans, Joel Goldstein, Helen F Heath, Benjamin Krikler, R. M. Brown, Dave M Newbold, David Petyt, Thomas Reis, Thomas Schuh, Johan Borg, Vilius Cepaitis, David Colling, Geoffrey Hall, Arabella Martelli, Vito Palladino, Markus Stoye, Alexander Tapper, Nicholas Wardle, A. Khan, Jay Dittmann, Kenichi Hatakeyama, Caleb Smith, Jonathan Wilson, Aaron Dominguez, Greg Landsberg, Sinan Sagir, Emanuele Usai, David Yu, Richard Breedon, David Taylor, Kyle Tos, R. Cousins, Abhigyan Dasgupta, Simon Regnard, Vyacheslav Valuev, Gordon H. Hanson, M. Olmedo Negrete, Weinan Si, Raffaele Gerosa, Marco Pieri, Vivek Sharma, Ulascan Sarica, Jay Mathew Lawhorn, Thong Nguyen, Manfred Paulini, J. Alexander, Andre Frankenthal, Juliet Ritchie Patterson, M. G. Albrow, Maral Alyari, Pushpalatha C Bhat, Oliver Gutsche, B. Jayatilaka, Stephan Lammel, Stephen Mrenna, Kevin Pedro, Lucas Taylor, Darin Acosta, Luca Cadamuro, Vladimir Cherepanov, Konstantin Matchev, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Kun Shi, Redwan Habibullah, Ted Kolberg, Tamer Elkafrawy, Daniel Noonan, Olga Evdokimov, Dhanush Anil Hangal, Jussi Viinikainen, Zhenbin Wu, Reddy Pratap Gandrajula, Christina Snyder, Barry Blumenfeld, Alexander Bylinkin, Nicola Minafra, Michael Murray, Erich Schmitz, Graham Wilson, Andrew Ivanov, Alberto Belloni, Shabnam Jabeen, Markus Seidel, Y-J Lee, Christof Roland, Peter Hansen, Kenneth Bloom, Frank Golf, J. R. González Fernández, Salvatore Rappoccio, George Alverson, Emanuela Barberis, Yacine Haddad, Badder Marzocchi, Nabarun Dev, Kevin Lannon, Brent Yates, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, David Lange, Marco Toliman Lucchini, M. Jones, Norbert Neumeister, Jan-Frederik Schulte, Nicolò Trevisani, Fuqiang Wang, Sarah Freed, Radia Redjimi, Yuri Gershtein, Andrew Hart, Kevin Nash, Marc Osherson, Mykhailo Dalchenko, Ricardo Eusebi, Shivali Malhotra, Alexei Safonov, Marta Verweij, Grace Cummings, Fan Xia, P. E. Karchin, Nabin Poudyal, Pieter Everaerts, Matthew Herndon, Deborah Pinna
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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 t (...)
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.
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