Sirunyan, AM;
Tumasyan, A;
Adam, W;
Ambrogi, F;
Asilar, E;
Bergauer, T;
Brandstetter, J;
... Woods, N; + view all
(2019)
Measurement of nuclear modification factors of ϒ(1S), ϒ(2S), and ϒ(3S) mesons in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV.
Physics Letters B
, 790
pp. 270-293.
10.1016/j.physletb.2019.01.006.
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Abstract
The cross sections for ϒ(1S), ϒ(2S), and ϒ(3S) production in lead–lead (PbPb) and proton–proton (pp) collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV have been measured using the CMS detector at the LHC. The nuclear modification factors, RAA, derived from the PbPb-to-pp ratio of yields for each state, are studied as functions of meson rapidity and transverse momentum, as well as PbPb collision centrality. The yields of all three states are found to be significantly suppressed, and compatible with a sequential ordering of the suppression, RAA(ϒ(1S)) > RAA(ϒ(2S)) > RAA(ϒ(3S)). The suppression of ϒ(1S) is larger than that seen at √sNN = 2.76 TeV, although the two are compatible within uncertainties. The upper limit on the RAA of ϒ(3S) integrated over pT, rapidity and centrality is 0.096 at 95% confidence level, which is the strongest suppression observed for a quarkonium state in heavy ion collisions to date.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Measurement of nuclear modification factors of ϒ(1S), ϒ(2S), and ϒ(3S) mesons in PbPb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.01.006 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.01.006 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Funded by SCOAP3. |
| Keywords: | CMS, Physics, Bottomonium, Quarkonium suppression, Quark gluon plasma, Heavy ion collisions |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071079 |
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