Publication
Title
Studies of beauty suppression via nonprompt mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at =5.02 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
The transverse momentum spectra of D-0 mesons from b hadron decays are measured at midrapidity (vertical bar y vertical bar < 1) in pp and Pb-Pb 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 Pb-Pb collisions, the B -> D-0 yield is found to be suppressed in the measured p(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(T) around 10 GeV/c. While theoretical calculations incorporating partonic energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma can successfully describe the measured B -> D-0 suppression at higher p(T), the data show an indication of larger suppression than the model predictions in the range of 2 < p(T) < 5 GeV/c.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review letters. - New York, N.Y., 1958, currens
Publication
New York, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2019
ISSN
0031-9007 [print]
1079-7114 [online]
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.123.022001
Volume/pages
123 :2 (2019) , 18 p.
Article Reference
022001
ISI
000474894200007
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
Publication type
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 14.01.2025
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