Aad, G.Abbott, B.Abdallah, J.Abdinov, O.Aben, R.Abolins, M.AbouZeid, O. S.Izen, Joseph M.Leyton, MichaelMeirose, BernhardNamasivayam, HarisankarReeves, KendallATLAS Collaboration2016-09-232016-09-232015-10-302015-10-300556-2813http://hdl.handle.net/10735.1/5051The ATLAS Collaboration measures the inclusive production of Z bosons via their decays into electron and muon pairs in p + Pb collisions at √s̅(N̅N̅) = 5.02 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are made using data corresponding to integrated luminosities of 29.4 and 28.1 nb⁻¹ for Z → ee and Z → μμ, respectively. The results from the two channels are consistent and combined to obtain a cross section times the Z → ℓℓ branching ratio, integrated over the rapidity region |γ(Z)*| < 3.5, of 139.8 ± 4.8 (statistical) ± 6.2 (systematic) ± 3.8 (luminosity) nb. Differential cross sections are presented as functions of the Z boson rapidity and transverse momentum and compared with models based on parton distributions both with and without nuclear corrections. The centrality dependence of Z boson production in p + Pb collisions is measured and analyzed within the framework of a standard Glauber model and the model's extension for fluctuations of the underlying nucleon-nucleon scattering cross section.enCC BY 3.0 (Attribution)©2015 CERN, for the ATLAS Collaborationhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Z bosonsProton-lead interactionsUncertaintyElectronsArticleAad, G., B. Abbott, J. Abdallah, O. Abdinov, et al. 2015. "Z boson production in p plus Pb collisions at root S-NN=5.02 TeV measured with the ATLAS detector." Physical Review C 92(4), doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.92.044915924