@article{10902/26838,
year = {2011},
month = {5},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10902/26838},
abstract = {A search for Z bosons in the μ+μ- decay channel has been performed in PbPb collisions at √sNN=2.76TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, in a 7.2 μb-1 data sample. The number of opposite-sign muon pairs observed in the 60-120GeV/c2 invariant mass range is 39, corresponding to a yield per unit of rapidity (y) and per minimum bias event of [33.8±5.5(stat)±4.4(syst)]×10-8, in the |y|<2.0 range. Rapidity, transverse momentum, and centrality dependencies are also measured. The results agree with next-to-leading order QCD calculations, scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions},
organization = {We thank Bryon Neufeld, Hannu Paukkunen, Carlos  Salgado, Ivan Vitev, and Ramona Vogt for fruitful theoretical  inputs on the nuclear effects involved in Z production.  We wish to congratulate our colleagues in the CERN  accelerator departments for the excellent performance of  the LHC machine in 2010. We thank the technical and  administrative staff at CERN and other CMS institutes,  and acknowledge support from FMSR (Austria); FNRS  and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and  FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST,  and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES  (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); Academy of Sciences and NICPB  (Estonia); Academy of Finland, ME, and HIP (Finland);  CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF  (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NKTH (Hungary);  DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN  (Italy); NRF and WCU (Korea); LAS (Lithuania);  CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI  (Mexico); PAEC (Pakistan); SCSR (Poland); FCT  (Portugal); JINR (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Ukraine,  Uzbekistan); MST and MAE (Russia); MSTD (Serbia);  MICINN and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies  (Switzerland); NSC (Taipei); TUBITAK and TAEK  (Turkey); STFC (United Kingdom); DOE and NSF (USA).},
publisher = {American Physical Society},
publisher = {Physical Review Letters, 2011,106 (21), 212301},
title = {Study of Z boson production in PbPb collisions at √s NN=2.76 TeV},
author = {Chatrchyan, S and Brochero Cifuentes, Javier Andrés and Cabrillo Bartolomé, José Iban and Calderón Tazón, Alicia and Chamizo Llatas, María and Duarte Campderros, Jorge and Felcini, Marta and Fernández García, Marcos and Gómez Gramuglio, Gervasio and González Sánchez, Francisco Javier and Jordá Lope, Clara and Lobelle Pardo, Patricia and López Virto, María Amparo and Marco de Lucas, Jesús and Marco de Lucas, Rafael José and Martínez Rivero, Celso and Matorras Weinig, Francisco and Muñoz Sánchez, Francisca Javiela and Piedra Gómez, Jonatan and Rodrigo Anoro, Teresa},
}