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(2024)
Measurement of the Z boson production cross-section in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 5.02 TeV.
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 (2).
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ISSN 1126-6708, 1029-8479
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Abstract
<jats:title>A<jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc>
</jats:title>
<jats:p>The first measurement of the <jats:italic>Z</jats:italic> boson production cross-section at centre-of-mass energy <jats:inline-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ \sqrt{s} $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msqrt>
<mml:mi>s</mml:mi>
</mml:msqrt>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:inline-formula> = 5<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>02 TeV in the forward region is reported, using <jats:italic>pp</jats:italic> collision data collected by the LHCb experiment in year 2017, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 100 ± 2 pb<jats:sup>
<jats:italic>−</jats:italic>1</jats:sup>. The production cross-section is measured for final-state muons in the pseudorapidity range 2<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>0 <jats:italic>< η <</jats:italic> 4<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>5 with transverse momentum <jats:italic>p</jats:italic>
<jats:sub>T</jats:sub>
<jats:italic>></jats:italic> 20 GeV/<jats:italic>c</jats:italic>. The integrated cross-section is determined to be<jats:disp-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ {\sigma}_{Z\to \mu +\mu -}=39.6\pm 0.7\left(\textrm{stat}\right)\pm 0.6\left(\textrm{syst}\right)\pm 0.8\left(\textrm{lumi}\right)\textrm{pb} $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>σ</mml:mi>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mi>Z</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>→</mml:mo>
<mml:mi>μ</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>+</mml:mo>
<mml:mi>μ</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>−</mml:mo>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msub>
<mml:mo>=</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>39.6</mml:mn>
<mml:mo>±</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>0.7</mml:mn>
<mml:mfenced>
<mml:mtext>stat</mml:mtext>
</mml:mfenced>
<mml:mo>±</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>0.6</mml:mn>
<mml:mfenced>
<mml:mtext>syst</mml:mtext>
</mml:mfenced>
<mml:mo>±</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>0.8</mml:mn>
<mml:mfenced>
<mml:mtext>lumi</mml:mtext>
</mml:mfenced>
<mml:mi>pb</mml:mi>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:disp-formula>
</jats:p>
<jats:p>for the di-muon invariant mass in the range 60 <jats:italic>< M</jats:italic>
<jats:sub>
<jats:italic>μμ</jats:italic>
</jats:sub>
<jats:italic><</jats:italic> 120 GeV/<jats:italic>c</jats:italic>
<jats:sup>2</jats:sup>. This result and the differential cross-section results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant.</jats:p>
<jats:p>Based on a previous LHCb measurement of the <jats:italic>Z</jats:italic> boson production cross-section in <jats:italic>p</jats:italic>Pb collisions at <jats:inline-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ \sqrt{s_{NN}} $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msqrt>
<mml:msub>
<mml:mi>s</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>NN</mml:mi>
</mml:msub>
</mml:msqrt>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:inline-formula> = 5<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>02 TeV, the nuclear modification factor <jats:italic>R</jats:italic>
<jats:sub>
<jats:italic>p</jats:italic>Pb</jats:sub> is measured for the first time at this energy. The measured values are <jats:inline-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ {1.2}_{-0.3}^{+0.5} $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msubsup>
<mml:mn>1.2</mml:mn>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mo>−</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>0.3</mml:mn>
</mml:mrow>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mo>+</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>0.5</mml:mn>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msubsup>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:inline-formula> (stat) <jats:italic>±</jats:italic> 0<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>1(syst) in the forward region (1.53 <jats:italic><</jats:italic>
<jats:inline-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ {y}_{\mu}^{\ast } $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msubsup>
<mml:mi>y</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>μ</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>∗</mml:mo>
</mml:msubsup>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:inline-formula>
<jats:italic><</jats:italic> 4<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>03) and <jats:inline-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ {3.6}_{-0.9}^{+1.6} $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msubsup>
<mml:mn>3.6</mml:mn>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mo>−</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>0.9</mml:mn>
</mml:mrow>
<mml:mrow>
<mml:mo>+</mml:mo>
<mml:mn>1.6</mml:mn>
</mml:mrow>
</mml:msubsup>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:inline-formula> (stat) <jats:italic>±</jats:italic> 0<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>2(syst) in the backward region (<jats:italic>−</jats:italic>4<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>97 <jats:italic><</jats:italic>
<jats:inline-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ {y}_{\mu}^{\ast } $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msubsup>
<mml:mi>y</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>μ</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>∗</mml:mo>
</mml:msubsup>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:inline-formula>
<jats:italic>< −</jats:italic>2<jats:italic>.</jats:italic>47), where <jats:inline-formula>
<jats:alternatives>
<jats:tex-math>$$ {y}_{\mu}^{\ast } $$</jats:tex-math>
<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mml:msubsup>
<mml:mi>y</mml:mi>
<mml:mi>μ</mml:mi>
<mml:mo>∗</mml:mo>
</mml:msubsup>
</mml:math>
</jats:alternatives>
</jats:inline-formula> represents the muon rapidity in the centre-of-mass frame.</jats:p>
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