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Phys. Rev. C 64, 044901 (2001) [10 pages]

Shadowing effects on vector boson production

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R. Vogt
GSI, Planckstrasse 1, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany;
Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calfornia 94720;
Physics Department, University of California, Davis, California 95616

Received 23 November 2000; published 27 August 2001

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 Z0, W+, and W- 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 Q2. We also compare our Pb+Pb results to the pp rapidity distributions at 14 TeV.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevC.64.044901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevC.64.044901
PACS:
25.75.Dw, 24.85.+p, 14.70.-e
 
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