Abstract

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Highlights

  • The Relativistic Heavy Ion Colider (RHIC) showed that strongly interacting matter produced in collision of two heavy nuclei takes the form of quark gluon plasma (QGP) [1]

  • The Z boson production has been measured in pp, p+Pb and Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 29 nb−1 and 0.49 nb−1 [13, 14], respectively

  • Model estimations based on the CT10 PDF [15] set with and without EPS09 [16] nuclear corrections and MSTW2008 are shown

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Summary

Introduction

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Colider (RHIC) showed that strongly interacting matter produced in collision of two heavy nuclei takes the form of quark gluon plasma (QGP) [1] In such medium produced color particles are expected to lose energy which leads to a phenomenon known as jet quenching. A direct way to study the initial stage of proton-proton (pp), proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions is to measure production of colorless electroweak (EW) bosons, namely high-energy photons, W± and Z. Very similar conclusions came from the first measurements of electroweak vector bosons in leadlead (Pb+Pb) collisions performed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments [6,7,8,9,10] In principle their production rates were found to be independent of the presence of QGP. A detailed description of the ATLAS detector is provided in Ref. [12]

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