Shadowing Effects on Vector Boson Production
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We explore how nuclear modifications to the nucleon structure functions, shadowing, affect massive gauge boson production in heavy ion collisions at different impact parameters. We calculate the dependence of , and production on rapidity and impact parameter to next-to-leading order in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.5 TeV/nucleon to study quark shadowing at high . We also compare our Pb+Pb results to the rapidity distributions at 14 TeV.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0011242,
title = {Shadowing Effects on Vector Boson Production},
author = {R. Vogt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0011242},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
25 pages ReVTeX, 12 .eps figures, NLO included, version accepted for publication in Physical Review C