The production of non-prompt D-0 mesons from beauty-hadron decays was measured at midrapidity (vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.5) in Pb-Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of root s(NN) = 5.02TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Their nuclear modification factor (R-AA), measured for the first time down to p(T) = 1 GeV/ c in the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality classes, indicates a significant suppression, up to a factor of about three, for p(T) > 5 GeV/ c in the 0-10% central Pb-Pb collisions. The data are described by models that include both collisional and radiative processes in the calculation of beauty-quark energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma, and quark recombination in addition to fragmentation as a hadronisation mechanism. The ratio of the non-prompt to prompt D-0-meson R-AA is larger than unity for p(T) > 4 GeV/c in the 0-10% central Pb-Pb collisions, as predicted by models in which beauty quarks lose less energy than charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma because of their larger mass.

Measurement of beauty production via non-prompt D0 mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at $$ \sqrt{{\textrm{s}}_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 5.02 TeV / Acharya, S., Adamov??, D., Adler, A., Adolfsson, J., Aglieri Rinella, G., Agnello, M., Agrawal, N., Ahammed, Z., Ahmad, S., Ahn, S.U., Ahuja, I., Akbar, Z., Akindinov, A., Al-Turany, M., Alam, S.N., Aleksandrov, D., Alessandro, B., Alfanda, H.M., Alfaro Molina, R., Ali, B., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - STAMPA. - 2022:12(2022). [10.1007/jhep12(2022)126]

Measurement of beauty production via non-prompt D0 mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at $$ \sqrt{{\textrm{s}}_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 5.02 TeV

G. E. Bruno;D. Colella;
2022

Abstract

The production of non-prompt D-0 mesons from beauty-hadron decays was measured at midrapidity (vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.5) in Pb-Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of root s(NN) = 5.02TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Their nuclear modification factor (R-AA), measured for the first time down to p(T) = 1 GeV/ c in the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality classes, indicates a significant suppression, up to a factor of about three, for p(T) > 5 GeV/ c in the 0-10% central Pb-Pb collisions. The data are described by models that include both collisional and radiative processes in the calculation of beauty-quark energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma, and quark recombination in addition to fragmentation as a hadronisation mechanism. The ratio of the non-prompt to prompt D-0-meson R-AA is larger than unity for p(T) > 4 GeV/c in the 0-10% central Pb-Pb collisions, as predicted by models in which beauty quarks lose less energy than charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma because of their larger mass.
2022
Measurement of beauty production via non-prompt D0 mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at $$ \sqrt{{\textrm{s}}_{\textrm{NN}}} $$ = 5.02 TeV / Acharya, S., Adamov??, D., Adler, A., Adolfsson, J., Aglieri Rinella, G., Agnello, M., Agrawal, N., Ahammed, Z., Ahmad, S., Ahn, S.U., Ahuja, I., Akbar, Z., Akindinov, A., Al-Turany, M., Alam, S.N., Aleksandrov, D., Alessandro, B., Alfanda, H.M., Alfaro Molina, R., Ali, B., et al.. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - STAMPA. - 2022:12(2022). [10.1007/jhep12(2022)126]
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