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Studies of Beauty Suppression via Nonprompt D0 Mesons in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN=5.02  TeV

The transverse momentum spectra of D$^0$ mesons from b hadron decays are measured at midrapidity ($|y|$ $<$ $1$) in pp and PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center of mass energy of 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. The D$^0$ mesons from b hadron decays are distinguished from prompt D$^0$ mesons by their decay topologies. In PbPb collisions, the B $\to$ D$^0$ yield is found to be suppressed in the measured $p_\mathrm{; ; T}; ; $ range from 2 to 100 GeV$/c$ as compared to pp collisions. The suppression is weaker than that of prompt D$^0$ mesons and charged hadrons for $p_\mathrm{; ; T}; ; $ around 10 GeV$/c$. While theoretical calculations incorporating partonic energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma can successfully describe the measured B $\to$ D$^0$ suppression at higher $p_\mathrm{; ; T}; ; $, the data show an indication of larger suppression than the model predictions in the range of 2 $\lt$ $p_\mathrm{; ; T}; ; $ $\lt$ 5 GeV$/c$.

High energy physics ; Experimental particle physics ; LHC ; CMS ; Physics ; Beyond two generations ; Excited top quark ; Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) ; Supersymmetry ; Beyond Standard Model ; Lepton production ; Data acquisition concepts ; Detector control systems (detector and experiment monitoring and slow-control systems, architecture, hardware, algorithms, databases) ; Modular electronics ; Optical detector readout concepts ; Particle Physics Experiments ; Data ; Higgs ; Muon

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