Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV

The differential production cross sections of B� mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B� → J=ψK� → μþμ−K� as a function of transverse momentum in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at a centerof-mass energy ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi sNN p ¼ 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at t...

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Main Authors:	Sirunyan, A. M., Tumasyan, A. R., Adam, Wolfgang, Asilar, Ece, Bergauer, Thomas, Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli
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spelling	iium-630272018-06-21T03:00:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/63027/ Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV Sirunyan, A. M. Tumasyan, A. R. Adam, Wolfgang Asilar, Ece Bergauer, Thomas Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli Q Science (General) QC Physics The differential production cross sections of B� mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B� → J=ψK� → μþμ−K� as a function of transverse momentum in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at a centerof-mass energy ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi sNN p ¼ 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at the LHC. The ppðPb PbÞ 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 jyj < 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. American Physical Society 2017-10-13 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63027/1/63027_Measurement%20of%20the%20B%C2%B1%20Meson%20Nuclear%20Modification%20Factor%20_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/63027/2/63027_Measurement%20of%20the%20B%C2%B1%20Meson%20Nuclear%20Modification%20Factor%20_scopus.pdf Sirunyan, A. M. and Tumasyan, A. R. and Adam, Wolfgang and Asilar, Ece and Bergauer, Thomas and Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli (2017) Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 119 (15). pp. 152301-1. ISSN 0031-9007 E-ISSN 1079-7114 https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.152301 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.152301
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spellingShingle	Q Science (General) QC Physics Sirunyan, A. M. Tumasyan, A. R. Adam, Wolfgang Asilar, Ece Bergauer, Thomas Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
description	The differential production cross sections of B� mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B� → J=ψK� → μþμ−K� as a function of transverse momentum in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at a centerof-mass energy ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi sNN p ¼ 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at the LHC. The ppðPb PbÞ 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 jyj < 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.
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author	Sirunyan, A. M. Tumasyan, A. R. Adam, Wolfgang Asilar, Ece Bergauer, Thomas Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli
author_facet	Sirunyan, A. M. Tumasyan, A. R. Adam, Wolfgang Asilar, Ece Bergauer, Thomas Md. Ali, Mohd. Adli
author_sort	Sirunyan, A. M.
title	Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
title_short	Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
title_full	Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
title_fullStr	Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
title_full_unstemmed	Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
title_sort	measurement of the b± meson nuclear modification factor in pb-pb collisions at snn =5.02 tev
publisher	American Physical Society
publishDate	2017
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Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV

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