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Measurement Of The B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor In Pb-Pb Collisions At Snn =5.02 Tev, A. M. Sirunyam, A. R. Tumasyan, Adam Wolfgang, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Toohin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva Oct 2017

Measurement Of The B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor In Pb-Pb Collisions At Snn =5.02 Tev, A. M. Sirunyam, A. R. Tumasyan, Adam Wolfgang, Marc M. Baarmand, Vallary Bhopatkar, Stefano Colafranceschi, Marcus Hohlmann, Daniel Noonan, Toohin S. Roy, Francisco X. Yumiceva

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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. © 2017 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the «https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.


J=C Production In Square Root Of Snn = 200 Gev Cu + Cu Collisions, Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey V. Afanasiev, Christine A. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Yasuyuki Akiba, Gyöngyi Baksay, László A. Baksay, Marcus Hohlmann, S. Rembeczki, Klaus Dehmelt Sep 2008

J=C Production In Square Root Of Snn = 200 Gev Cu + Cu Collisions, Andrew Marshall Adare, Sergey V. Afanasiev, Christine A. Aidala, N. N. Ajitanand, Yasuyuki Akiba, Gyöngyi Baksay, László A. Baksay, Marcus Hohlmann, S. Rembeczki, Klaus Dehmelt

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Yields for J=c production in Cu þ Cu collisions at ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi sNN p ¼ 200 GeV have been measured over the rapidity range jyj < 2:2 and compared with results in p þ p and Au þ Au collisions at the same energy. The Cu þ Cu data offer greatly improved precision over existing Au þ Au data for J=c production in collisions with small to intermediate numbers of participants, in the range where the quark-gluon plasma transition threshold is predicted to lie. Cold nuclear matter estimates based on ad hoc fits to d þ Au data describe the Cu þ Cu data up to Npart 50, corresponding to a Bjorken energy density of at least 1:5 GeV=fm3.