Study of ϒ Production and Cold Nuclear Matter Effects in pPb Collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 5 TeV
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Counts, Ian Thomas Hunt; Williams, Michael; Ilten, Philip J
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Production of Υ mesons in proton-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy √s[subscript NN] = 5 TeV is studied with the LHCb detector. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.6 nb[superscript −1]. The Υ mesons of transverse momenta up to 15 GeV/c are reconstructed in the dimuon decay mode. The rapidity coverage in the centre-of-mass system is 1.5 < y < 4.0 (forward region) and −5.0 < y < −2.5 (backward region). The forward-backward production ratio and the nuclear modification factor for Υ (1S) mesons are determined. The data are compatible with the predictions for a suppression of Υ (1S) production with respect to proton-proton collisions in the forward region, and an enhancement in the backward region. The suppression is found to be smaller than in the case of prompt J/ψ mesons.
Date issued
2014-07Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear ScienceJournal
Journal of High Energy Physics
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Citation
Aaij, R., B. Adeva, M. Adinolfi, A. Affolder, Z. Ajaltouni, J. Albrecht, F. Alessio, et al. “Study of ϒ Production and Cold Nuclear Matter Effects in pPb Collisions at √s[subscript NN] = 5 TeV.” J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, no. 7 (July 2014). © CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration
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1029-8479
1126-6708