Prompt and non-prompt J production at midrapidity in Pb–Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV
Collaboration
36 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 02 (2024) 066
- Published: Feb 9, 2024
e-Print:
- 2308.16125 [nucl-ex]
Report number:
- CERN-EP-2023-190
Experiments:
- CERN-LHC-ALICE,
- CERN-LHC-ALICE
Citations per year
Abstract: (Springer)
The transverse momentum (p) and centrality dependence of the nuclear modification factor R of prompt and non-prompt J/ψ, the latter originating from the weak decays of beauty hadrons, have been measured by the ALICE collaboration in Pb–Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV. The measurements are carried out through the ee decay channel at midrapidity (|y| < 0.9) in the transverse momentum region 1.5 < p < 10 GeV/c. Both prompt and non-prompt J/ψ measurements indicate a significant suppression for p > 5 GeV/c, which becomes stronger with increasing collision centrality. The results are consistent with similar LHC measurements in the overlapping p intervals, and cover the kinematic region down to p = 1.5 GeV/c at midrapidity, not accessible by other LHC experiments. The suppression of prompt J/ψ in central and semicentral collisions exhibits a decreasing trend towards lower transverse momentum, described within uncertainties by models implementing J/ψ production from recombination of c and quarks produced independently in different partonic scatterings. At high transverse momentum, transport models including quarkonium dissociation are able to describe the suppression for prompt J/ψ. For non-prompt J/ψ, the suppression predicted by models including both collisional and radiative processes for the computation of the beauty-quark energy loss inside the quark-gluon plasma is consistent with measurements within uncertainties.[graphic not available: see fulltext]Note:
- 36 pages, 12 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 30, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/9601
- Heavy Ion Experiments
- Heavy Quark Production
- Quarkonium
- gluon: plasma
- transverse momentum: high
- quarkonium: dissociation
- decay: weak interaction
- suppression
- GeV
- TeV
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