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Measurement of Z Boson Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector

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Measurement of Z Boson Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector. / The ATLAS collaboration.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 110, No. 2, 022301, 08.01.2013.

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The ATLAS collaboration (2013). Measurement of Z Boson Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector. Physical review letters, 110(2), Article 022301. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.022301

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The ATLAS collaboration. Measurement of Z Boson Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector. Physical review letters. 2013 Jan 8;110(2):022301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.022301

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The ATLAS collaboration. / Measurement of Z Boson Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector. In: Physical review letters. 2013 ; Vol. 110, No. 2.

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title = "Measurement of Z Boson Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN−−−−√=2.76  TeV with the ATLAS Detector",
abstract = "The ATLAS experiment has observed 1995 Z boson candidates in data corresponding to 0.15  nb−1 of integrated luminosity obtained in the 2011 LHC Pb+Pb run at sNN−−−−√=2.76  TeV. The Z bosons are reconstructed via dielectron and dimuon decay channels, with a background contamination of less than 3%. Results from the two channels are consistent and are combined. Within the statistical and systematic uncertainties, the per-event Z boson yield is proportional to the number of binary collisions estimated by the Glauber model. The elliptic anisotropy of the azimuthal distribution of the Z boson with respect to the event plane is found to be consistent with zero.",
author = "Adam Barton and Guennadi Borissov and Eva Bouhova-Thacker and Alexandre Chilingarov and Ruth Davidson and {de Mora}, Lee and William Dearnaley and Harald Fox and Robert Henderson and Gareth Hughes and Jones, {Roger William Lewis} and Vakhtang Kartvelishvili and Robin Long and Peter Love and Harvey Maddocks and Maria Smizanska and James Walder and {The ATLAS collaboration}",
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AU - Chilingarov, Alexandre

AU - Davidson, Ruth

AU - de Mora, Lee

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AU - Henderson, Robert

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AU - Jones, Roger William Lewis

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