Vector boson and Charmonium production in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions with ATLAS at the LHC

13 Apr 2016, 11:00
15m
Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

Auditorium

DESY Hamburg

Structure Functions and Parton Densities WG1 Structure Functions and Parton Densities

Speaker

Markus Konrad Kohler (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Description

Photons and weak bosons do not interact strongly with the dense and hot medium formed in the nuclei collisions, thus should be sensitive to the nuclear modification of parton distribution functions (nPDFs). The in-medium modification of heavy Charmonium states plays an important role in studying the hot and dense medium formed in the larger collision systems. The ATLAS detector, optimized for searching new physics in proton-proton collisions, is especially well equipped to measure photons, Z, W bosons and quakonium in the high occupancy environment produced in heavy ion collisions. We will present recent results on the prompt photon, Z and W boson yields as a function of centrality, transverse momentum and rapidity, from the ATLAS experiment.

Primary author

Dr Salvador Marti (IFIC-Valencia (UVEG-CSIC))

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