Naslov
Measurement of the B+/- meson nuclear modification factor in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV

Autori
Sirunyan, Albert ; ... ; Mesić, Benjamin ; Godinović, Nikola ; Puljak, Ivica ; Starodumov, Andrey ; Lelas, Damir ; Kovač, Marko ; Đurić, Senka ; Ferenček, Dinko ; Brigljević, Vuko ; Luetić, Jelena ; Antunović, Željko ; Kadija, Krešo ; Šuša, Tatjana ; ... ; Woods, Nate

Kolaboracija
CMS Collaboration

Izvornik
Physical Review Letters (0031-9007) 119 (2017); 152301, 17

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
High energy physics, Experimental particle physics, LHC, CMS, Standard Model

Sažetak
The differential production cross sections of B+/- mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B+/- to J/psi K+/- to mu+ mu- K+/- as a function of transverse momentum in pp and PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at the LHC. The pp (PbPb) dataset used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 28.0 inverse picobarns (351 inverse microbarns). The measurement is performed in the B+/- meson transverse momentum range of 7 to 50 GeV/c, in the rapidity interval abs(y) < 2.4. In this kinematic range, a strong suppression of the production cross section by about a factor of two is observed in the PbPb 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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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