Study of production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at=5 TeV

LHCb collaboration

doi:10.1007/JHEP07(2014)094

Study of production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at=5 TeV

LHCb collaboration

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Abstract

Production of mesons in proton-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy = 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(-1). The 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 (1S) mesons are determined. The data are compatible with the predictions for a suppression of (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/psi mesons.

Original language	English
Article number	094
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of High Energy Physics
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2014)094
Publication status	Published - 21 Jul 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Relativistic heavy ion physics
Quarkonium
Heavy quark production
Heavy Ions
Particle and resonance production
J-PSI
HADRONIC PRODUCTION
J/PSI PRODUCTION
SUPPRESSION
DECAY
TOOL

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