Indications of Suppression of Excited Upsilon States in Pb-Pb Collisions at root(s)NN=2.76 TeV
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Alver, Burak Han; Bendavid, Joshua L.; Busza, Wit; Butz, Erik M.; Cali, Ivan Amos; Chan, M.; Dutta, Valentina; Everaerts, Pieter Bruno Bart; Gomez-Ceballos, Guillelmo; Goncharov, Maxim; Hahn, Kristian Allan; Kim, Y.; Klute, Markus; Li, W.; Ma, Teng; Nahn, Steven; Paus, Christoph M. E.; Ralph, Duncan Kelley; Stephans, George S. F.; Sung, Kevin Kai Hong; Velicanu, Dragos Alexandru; Wenger, Edward Allen; Xie, Si; Yilmaz, Yetkin; Zanetti, Marco; Harris, Philip Coleman; Luckey Jr, P David; Roland, Gunther M; Stoeckli, Fabian; Yang, Mingming; Bauer, Gerry P; Lee, Yen-Jie; Loizides, Constantinos; Roland, Christof E; Sumorok, Konstanty C; ... Show more Show less
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A comparison of the relative yields of Υ resonances in the μ[superscript +]μ[superscript -] decay channel in Pb-Pb and pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 2.76 TeV is performed with data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Using muons of transverse momentum above 4 GeV/c and pseudorapidity below 2.4, the double ratio of the Υ(2S) and Υ(3S) excited states to the Υ(1S) ground state in Pb-Pb and pp collisions, [Υ(2S+3S)/Υ(1S)][subscript Pb-Pb]/[Υ(2S+3S)/Υ(1S)][subscript pp], is found to be 0.31[subscript -0.15][superscript +0.19](stat)±0.03(syst). The probability to obtain the measured value, or lower, if the true double ratio is unity, is calculated to be less than 1%.
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2011-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Chatrchyan, S. et al. “Indications of Suppression of Excited Υ States in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76 TeV.” Physical Review Letters 107 (2011): n. pag. Web. 8 Nov. 2011. © 2011 American Physical Society
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0031-9007