Tuesday, January 1, 2013

1212.6541 (Zhong-Bo Kang et al.)

Nuclear modification of vector boson production in proton-lead
collisions at the LHC
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Zhong-Bo Kang, Jian-Wei Qiu
In anticipating the upcoming proton-lead run at the LHC in the near future, we present predictions for the nuclear modification factor of transverse momentum spectrum of $Z^0$ production and transverse momentum broadening of vector boson ($J/\psi$, $\Upsilon$, $W/Z^0$) production in proton-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s}=5$ TeV, respectively. We find that the measurement of nuclear modification factor of $Z^0$ production provides a clean and unambiguous test of the nuclear anti-shadowing proposed in the recent EPS09. In addition, the dramatic difference in transverse momentum broadening between the heavy quarkonium and $W/Z^0$ production could be a signature prediction of QCD parton multiple scattering, and it provides valuable informations on color neutralization of a produced heavy quark pair when it transmutes into a physical quarkonium.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6541

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