Abstract

A measurement of W boson production in lead-lead collisions at sqrt{s_{mathrm {NN}}}=2.76mathrm { TeV} is presented. It is based on the analysis of data collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2011 corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 0.14 mathrm {nb}^{-1} and 0.15 mathrm {nb}^{-1} in the muon and electron decay channels, respectively. The differential production yields and lepton charge asymmetry are each measured as a function of the average number of participating nucleons langle N_{mathrm {part}} rangle and absolute pseudorapidity of the charged lepton. The results are compared to predictions based on next-to-leading-order QCD calculations. These measurements are, in principle, sensitive to possible nuclear modifications to the parton distribution functions and also provide information on scaling of W boson production in multi-nucleon systems.

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