We consider a selection of recent experimental results on electroweak W-+/-, Z gauge boson production in pp collisions at BNL RHIC and CERN LHC energies in comparison to prediction of perturbative QCD calculations bas...
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We consider a selection of recent experimental results on electroweak W-+/-, Z gauge boson production in pp collisions at BNL RHIC and CERN LHC energies in comparison to prediction of perturbative QCD calculations based on different sets of NLO parton distribution functions including the statistical PDF model known from fits to the DIS data. We show that the current statistical PDF parametrization (fitted to the DIS data only) underestimates the LHC data on W-+/-, Z gauge boson production cross sections at the NLO by about 20%. This suggests that there is a need to refit the parameters of the statistical PDF including the latest LHC data. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Z bosons are short lived and do not participate in the strong interaction. Thus their production yields, observed via dilepton decay channels in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions, provide direct tests of both binar...
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Z bosons are short lived and do not participate in the strong interaction. Thus their production yields, observed via dilepton decay channels in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions, provide direct tests of both binary collision scaling and the nuclear modification of parton distribution functions (nPDF). Proton-lead collisions further provide a relatively clean environment for benchmarking nuclear parton distribution functions (PDF). The ATLAS detector has a broad acceptance in the muon and electron channels, with excellent performance even in the high occupancy environment of central heavy-ion collisions. In this talk, Z yields, are presented differentially in rapidity and as a function of centrality in lead-lead and proton-lead collisions.
In this contribution, we extract parton distribution functions with take into account intrinsic charm contribution and respect to nuclear effects. We focus on the impact of intrinsic charm on partondistribution funct...
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The high collision energies available at the LHC allow for an abundant production of hard probes, such as quarkonia, high-p T jets and vector bosons (W, Z), which are produced in initial hard parton scattering process...
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The high collision energies available at the LHC allow for an abundant production of hard probes, such as quarkonia, high-p T jets and vector bosons (W, Z), which are produced in initial hard parton scattering processes. The latter decay before the formation of the Quark- Gluon Plasma (QGP), which is a deconfined phase of QCD matter produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Their leptonic decay products do not interact strongly with the QGP. Thus electroweak bosons introduce a way for benchmarking in-medium modifications to coloured probes. The production of W-boson in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV and p-Pb collisions at √s NN =5.02 TeV are measured via the muonic decay channel at the LHC with the ALICE detector. In pp collisions the rapidity covered by the measurement is -410 GeV/c are determined. The results are compared to theoretical calculations both with and without including the nPDFs. The W-boson production is also studied as a function of the collision centrality: the cross section of muons from W-boson decays is found to scale with the average number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions with uncertainties.
We study the nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process using quark parton distribution functions calculated in a microscopic nuclear model which takes into account the effects of Fermi motion, nuclear binding and nu...
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We study the nuclear medium effects in Drell-Yan process using quark parton distribution functions calculated in a microscopic nuclear model which takes into account the effects of Fermi motion, nuclear binding and nucleon correlations through a relativistic nucleon spectral function. The contributions of pi and rho mesons as well as shadowing effects are also included. The beam energy loss is calculated using a phenomenological approach. The present theoretical results are compared with the experimental results of the E772 and E866 experiments. These results are applicable to the forthcoming experimental analysis of E906 Sea Quest experiment at the Fermi Lab.
We derived the conditions on certain combinations of integrals of the fragmentation functions of pion using HERMES data for the sum of the charged pion multiplicities from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SID...
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We derived the conditions on certain combinations of integrals of the fragmentation functions of pion using HERMES data for the sum of the charged pion multiplicities from semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (SIDIS) off the deuteron target. In our derivation the nucleon parton distribution functions (PDFs) are assumed to be isospin SU(2) symmetric. Similar conditions have also been obtained for the fragmentation functions (FFs) of kaon by the sum of charged kaon multiplicities as well. We have chosen several FFs to study the impact of those conditions we have derived. Among those FFs, we find that the fragmentation functions produced by the nonlocal chiral-quark model (NL chi QM) constantly satisfy the conditions. Furthermore, the ratios of the strange PDFs S(x, Q(2)) and the non-strange PDFs Q(x, Q(2)) extracted from the charged pion and kaon multiplicities differ from each other significantly. Finally, we demonstrate that the HERMES pion multiplicity data are unlikely to be compatible with two widely-used PDFs, namely CTEQ6L and leading order NNPDF3.0. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license.
The Drell-Yan massive dilepton production in hadron hadron collisions provides a unique tool, complementary to Deep Inelastic Scattering, for improving our understanding of hadronic substructure and in particular for ...
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The Drell-Yan massive dilepton production in hadron hadron collisions provides a unique tool, complementary to Deep Inelastic Scattering, for improving our understanding of hadronic substructure and in particular for testing partondistributions. We will consider measurements of the differential and double differential Drell-Yan cross sections from FNAL Tevatron up to CERN LHC energies and they will be compared to the predictions of perturbative QCD calculations using most recent sets (CT14 and MMHT14) of parton distribution functions, as well as those provided by the statistical approach. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Electroweak-boson production processes (W, Z and photon) provide access to the earliest moments of heavy ion collisions. Furthermore, because they do not undergo strong interactions, they are sensitive to the initial ...
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Electroweak-boson production processes (W, Z and photon) provide access to the earliest moments of heavy ion collisions. Furthermore, because they do not undergo strong interactions, they are sensitive to the initial state geometry of the collision and potentially the details of the nuclear parton distribution functions. ATLAS results on vector boson yields have demonstrated binary collision scaling in Pb+Pb collisions. In p+Pb collisions, the measurement of vector bosons provides possible constraints on the nuclear parton distribution functions and insights into the details of the initial collision geometry. We report on the latest results of vector boson production in p+Pb collisions at root S-NN = 5.02 TeV. Production yields of Z and W bosons and lepton charge asymmetry of W bosons are presented as a function of pseudo rapidity and centrality. The vector boson yields are compared to calculations incorporating different parton distribution functions, as well as different centrality calculations.
Measurements of vector boson production in lead-lead collisions provide essential control data for studies of jets and jet quenching in the quark gluon plasma. Because the electroweak bosons do not interact strongly i...
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Recent CMS results related to jet production measurements as well as measurements of the strong coupling constant are discussed. In particular, results are described related to jet production cross sections, which pos...
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