First observation of top quark pair production in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV, with a 5.0 sigma significance and a measured cross-section of 3.6 microbarns.
TUJU21: nuclear PDFs with electroweak-boson data at NNLO
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Nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) can be determined in a global QCD analysis using a wide range of experimental data. In addition to older fixed-target deep inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan (DY) dilepton production data, several analyses from p+Pb collisions at the LHC provide further constraints and extend the kinematic reach of applicable data. Here we present an update of our previous TUJU19 analysis where we now include also electroweak-boson production data recently measured by ATLAS and CMS. For the first time, LHC data are included in a nPDF analysis performed at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. As before, our setup is based on the open-source analysis framework xFitter and we fit our own proton baseline, ensuring a fully consistent setup. We find good agreement with the applied data and that the resulting $\chi^2/N_{\mathrm{df}}$ is significantly smaller in case of the NNLO analysis (0.84) compared to our NLO analysis (0.94). Also, we present comparisons between our NNLO calculations and electroweak-boson production data in Pb+Pb collisions from ATLAS and CMS and DY data recently measured by CMS where NNLO corrections are found significant.
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Observation of top-quark pair production in lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=5.02$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
First observation of top quark pair production in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV, with a 5.0 sigma significance and a measured cross-section of 3.6 microbarns.