26–31 Jul 2015
Quy Nhon, Vietnam
Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh timezone

Electroweak boson results from CMS

28 Jul 2015, 15:00
30m
Quy Nhon, Vietnam

Quy Nhon, Vietnam

International Center of Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE)
Electroweak Probes Electroweak Probes

Speaker

Thi Hien Doan (National Central University (TW))

Description

Electroweak production is an important benchmark in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. Electroweak bosons (W and Z) do not participate in strong interaction and their leptonic decays play as an idea tag to probe properties of jets that interact with the medium strongly. They, moreover, constrain nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in unexplored region of Q^2 - x phase space. They can also provide insights into the parton distribution function of neutrons. Measurement of W and Z bosons in pPb collision at 5.02 TeV will be presented in both muon and electron channel decays. The results are compared to theory prediction with and without nuclear modification. In addition, final results of W and Z production in PbPb collisions at 2.76 TeV compared to pp at the same energy collisions will also be mentioned.

Primary author

Alice Helene Florent (Univ. of California Los Angeles (US))

Co-author

Thi Hien Doan (National Central University (TW))

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