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Title: | Observation of the B-c(+) Meson in Pb-Pb and pp Collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV and Measurement of its Nuclear Modification Factor | Authors: | Tumasyan, A. Adam, W. Andrejkovic, J. W. Bergauer, T. Chatterjee, S. Dragicevic, M. Güler, Yalçın The CMS Collaboration |
Keywords: | Suppression | Issue Date: | 2022 | Publisher: | Amer Physical Soc | Abstract: | The B-c(+) meson is observed for the first time in heavy ion collisions. Data from the CMS detector are used to study the production of the B-c(+) meson in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) and proton-proton (pp) collisions at a center of-mass energy per nucleon pair of root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV, via the B-c(+) -> (J/psi -> mu(+)mu(-))mu(+)nu(mu) decay. The B-c(+) nuclear modification factor, derived from the Pb-Pb-to-pp ratio of production cross sections, is measured in two bins of the trimuon transverse momentum and of the Pb-Pb collision centrality. The B-c(+) meson is shown to be less suppressed than quarkonia and most of the open heavy-flavor mesons, suggesting that effects of the hot and dense nuclear matter created in heavy ion collisions contribute to its production. This measurement sets forth a promising new probe of the interplay of suppression and enhancement mechanisms in the production of heavy-flavor mesons in the quark-gluon plasma. | URI: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.252301 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13091/3079 |
ISSN: | 0031-9007 1079-7114 |
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