@article{d4fa17ef88924e708ae3f54cde04a2e5,
title = "First Measurement of the Z →μ+μ- Angular Coefficients in the Forward Region of pp Collisions at s =13 TeV",
abstract = "The first study of the angular distribution of μ+μ- pairs produced in the forward rapidity region via the Drell-Yan reaction pp→γ∗/Z+X→ℓ+ℓ-+X is presented, using data collected with the LHCb detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.1 fb-1. The coefficients of the five leading terms in the angular distribution are determined as a function of the dimuon transverse momentum and rapidity. The results are compared to various theoretical predictions of the Z-boson production mechanism and can also be used to probe transverse-momentum-dependent parton distributions within the proton.",
author = "{(LHCb Collaboration)} and R. Aaij and Abdelmotteleb, {A. S.W.} and {Abell{\'a}n Beteta}, C. and F. Abudin{\'e}n and T. Ackernley and B. Adeva and M. Adinolfi and H. Afsharnia and C. Agapopoulou and Aidala, {C. A.} and S. Aiola and Z. Ajaltouni and S. Akar and J. Albrecht and F. Alessio and M. Alexander and {Alfonso Albero}, A. and Z. Aliouche and G. Alkhazov and {Alvarez Cartelle}, P. and S. Amato and Amey, {J. L.} and Y. Amhis and L. An and L. Anderlini and M. Andersson and A. Andreianov and M. Andreotti and D. Andreou and D. Ao and F. Archilli and A. Artamonov and M. Artuso and K. Arzymatov and E. Aslanides and M. Atzeni and B. Audurier and S. Bachmann and M. Bachmayer and Back, {J. J.} and {Baladron Rodriguez}, P. and V. Balagura and W. Baldini and {Baptista De Souza Leite}, J. and M. Barbetti and Barlow, {R. J.} and {Calvo Gomez}, M. and E. Golobardes and {Valls Canudas}, N. and X. Vilasis-Cardona",
note = "Funding Information: We express our gratitude to our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC. We thank the technical and administrative staff at the LHCb institutes. We acknowledge support from CERN and from the national agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPERJ, and FINEP (Brazil); MOST and NSFC (China); CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and MPG (Germany); INFN (Italy); NWO (Netherlands); MNiSW and NCN (Poland); MEN/IFA (Romania); MinES and FASO (Russia); MinECo (Spain); SNSF and SER (Switzerland); NASU (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); NSF (USA). We acknowledge the computing resources that are provided by CERN, IN2P3 (France), KIT and DESY (Germany), INFN (Italy), SURF (Netherlands), PIC (Spain), GridPP (United Kingdom), RRCKI and Yandex LLC (Russia), CSCS (Switzerland), IFIN-HH (Romania), CBPF (Brazil), PL-GRID (Poland), and OSC (USA). We are indebted to the communities behind the multiple open-source software packages on which we depend. Individual groups or members have received support from AvH Foundation (Germany); EPLANET, Marie Sk{\l}odowska-Curie Actions and ERC (European Union); ANR, Labex P2IO and OCEVU, and R{\'e}gion Auvergne-Rh{\^o}ne-Alpes (France); Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS, CAS PIFI, and the Thousand Talents Program (China); RFBR, RSF, and Yandex LLC (Russia); GVA, XuntaGal, and GENCAT (Spain); Herchel Smith Fund, the Royal Society, the English-Speaking Union, and the Leverhulme Trust (United Kingdom); Laboratory Directed Research and Development program of LANL (USA). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 CERN.",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.091801",
language = "English",
volume = "129",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "9",
}