Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
Physical Review Letters 2017
CERN international group of authors, Viesturs Veckalns

The differential production cross sections of B± mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B±→J/ψK±→μ+μ-K± as a function of transverse momentum in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sNN=5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at the LHC. The pp(Pb-Pb) data set used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 28.0 pb-1 (351 μb-1). The measurement is performed in the B± meson transverse momentum range of 7 to 50 GeV/c, in the rapidity interval |y| < 2.4. In this kinematic range, a strong suppression of the production cross section by about a factor of 2 is observed in the Pb-Pb system in comparison to the expectation from pp reference data. These results are found to be roughly compatible with theoretical calculations incorporating beauty quark diffusion and energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma.


DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.152301
Hyperlink
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.152301

international group of authors, C., Veckalns, V. Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 2017, Vol.119, No.15, pp.1-10. ISSN 0031-9007. Available from: doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.152301

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English (en)
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