LHCb PDF measurements

Abstract

The LHCb experiment covers a unique region of acceptance at forward rapidities in the high energy proton-proton collisions of the LHC. This means that measurements of particle production in LHCb are directly sensitive to the parton distribution functions at low Björken-$x$ values. Several measurements of inclusive $W$ and $Z/{\gamma }^{\ast }$ production with the Run-I dataset are reported in these proceedings. Further measurements of $W$ and $Z/{\gamma }^{\ast }$ production in association with inclusive jets and $b$- and $c$-tagged jets are also reported.

On behalf of the LHCb collaboration. In Proceedings of the Third Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference LHCP15, Aug. 31-Sept 5, 2015 St. Petersburg, Russia