Nuclear modification of Y states in PbPb

Collaboration
2015
12 pages
Report number:
  • CMS-PAS-HIN-15-001
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Abstract:
Yields of Υ\Upsilon(1S), Υ\Upsilon(2S) and Υ\Upsilon(3S) mesons are measured in the CMS experiment via their μ+μ\mu^+ \mu^- decays, for bottomonium rapidity y<2.4|y|<2.4, in PbPb and pp collisions at the same energy, sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76~TeV. The CMS detector was used to collect integrated luminosity of 166~μ\mub1^{-1} for PbPb and 5.4~pb1^{-1} for pp, corresponding to a similar total number of nucleon-nucleon collisions. Differential cross sections and nuclear modification factors are reported as functions of rapidity and transverse momentum, as well as collision centrality, for the Υ\Upsilon(1S) and the Υ\Upsilon(2S). By comparing to the yield in pp collisions scaled by the number of inelastic nucleon-nucleon collisions, a strong, centrality-dependent suppression is observed in PbPb collisions, by up to a factor of 2 and 10, for the Υ\Upsilon(1S) and the Υ\Upsilon(2S), respectively. No significant dependences are observed as functions of rapidity or transverse momentum. The Υ\Upsilon(3S) was not observed in PbPb collisions, being suppressed by more than 7 at the 95\% confidence level.
Note:
  • Preliminary results
  • Data
  • yield
  • meson
  • suppression
  • nucleus
  • lead
  • differential cross section
  • bottomonium
  • quarkonium
  • muon