Study of B Meson Production in p+Pb Collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV Using Exclusive Hadronic Decays

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Author
CMS Collaboration
Khachatryan, Vardan
Bachmair, Felix
Bäni, Lukas
Bianchini, Lorenzo
Buchmann, Marco A.
Casal, Bruno
Dissertori, Günther
Dittmar, Michael
Donegà, Mauro
Eller, Philipp
Grab, Christoph
Heidegger, Constantin
Hits, Dmitry
Hoss, Jan
Kasieczka, Gregor
Lustermann, Werner
Mangano, Boris
Marionneau, Matthieu
Martinez Ruiz del Arbol, Pablo
Masciovecchio, Mario
Meister, Daniel
Micheli, Francesco
Musella, Pasquale
Nessi-Tedaldi, Francesca
Pandolfi, Francesco
Pata, Joosep
Pauss, Felicitas
Perrozzi, Luca
Quittnat, Milena
Rossini, Marco
Starodumov, Andrey
Takahashi, Maiko
Tavolaro, Vittorio R.
Theofilatos, Konstantinos
Wallny, Rainer
et al.
Date
2016-01Type
- Journal Article
Abstract
The production cross sections of the B+, B0, and B0s mesons, and of their charge conjugates, are measured via exclusive hadronic decays in p+Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy √sNN=5.02 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data set used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 34.6 nb−1. The production cross sections are measured in the transverse momentum range between 10 and 60 GeV/c. No significant modification is observed compared to proton-proton perturbative QCD calculations scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. These results provide a baseline for the study of in-medium b quark energy loss in Pb+Pb collisions. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000113410Publication status
publishedJournal / series
Physical Review LettersVolume
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American Physical SocietyOrganisational unit
03381 - Pauss, Felicitas (emeritus)
03593 - Dissertori, Günther / Dissertori, Günther
03904 - Wallny, Rainer / Wallny, Rainer
08803 - Grab, Christoph (Tit.Prof.)
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