Study of Z Bosons Produced in Association with Charm in the Forward Region

Aaij, R.; Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W.; Beteta, C. Abellan; Gallego, F. J. Abudinen; Ackernley, T.; Adeva, B.; Adinolfi, M.; Afsharnia, H.; Agapopoulou, C.; Aidala, C. A.; Aiola, S.; Ajaltouni, Z.; Akar, S.; Albrecht, J.; Alessio, F.; Alexander, M.; Alfonso Albero, A.; Aliouche, Z.; Alkhazov, G.; Cartelle, P. Alvarez; Amato, S.; Amey, J. L.; Amhis, Y.; An, L.; Anderlini, L.; Andreianov, A.; Andreotti, M.; Archilli, F.; Artamonov, A.; Artuso, M.; Arzymatov, K.; Aslanides, E.; Atzeni, M.; Audurier, B.; Bachmann, S.; Bachmayer, M.; Back, J. J.; Baladron Rodriguez, P.; Balagura, V; Baldini, W.; Leite, J. Baptista; Barbetti, M.; Barlow, R. J.; Barsuk, S.; Barter, W.; Bartolini, M.; Baryshnikov, F.; Basels, J. M.; Bashir, S.; Bassi, G.; Batsukh, B.; Battig, A.; Bay, A.; Beck, A.; Becker, M.; Bedeschi, F.; Bediaga, I; Beiter, A.; Belavin, V; Belin, S.; Bellee, V; Belous, K.; Belov, I; Belyaev, I; Bencivenni, G.; Ben-Haim, E.; Berezhnoy, A.; Bernet, R.; Berninghoff, D.; Bernstein, H. C.; Bertella, C.; Bertolin, A.; Betancourt, C.; Betti, F.; Bezshyiko, Ia; Bhasin, S.; Bhom, J.; Bian, L.; Bieker, M. S.; Bifani, S.; Billoir, P.; Birch, M.; Bishop, F. C. R.; Bitadze, A.; Bizzeti, A.; Bjorn, M.; Blago, M. P.; Blake, T.; Blanc, F.; Blusk, S.; Bobulska, D.; Boelhauve, J. A.; Boente Garcia, O.; Boettcher, T.; Boldyrev, A.; Bondar, A.; Bondar, N.; Borghi, S.; Borisyak, M.; Borsato, M.; et al.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.082001

research article

Study of Z Bosons Produced in Association with Charm in the Forward Region

Aaij, R.

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Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W.

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Beteta, C. Abellan

February 24, 2022

Physical Review Letters

Events containing a Z boson and a charm jet are studied for the first time in the forward region of proton-proton collisions. The data sample used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 6 fb(-1) collected at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV with the LHCb detector. In events with a Z boson and a jet, the fraction of charm jets is determined in intervals of Z-boson rapidity in the range 2.0 < y(Z) < 4.5. A sizable enhancement is observed in the forwardmost y(Z) interval, which could be indicative of a valencelike intrinsic-charm component in the proton wave function.