Measurement of prompt D.sub.s./sub..sup.+./sup.-meson production and azimuthal anisotropy in Pb-Pb collisions at √s.sub.NN./sub. = 5.02 TeV

0559782 - ÚJF 2023 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Acharya, S. - Adamová, Dagmar - Adler, A. - Adolfsson, J. - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Broz, M. - Contreras, J. G. - Herman, T. - Horák, D. - Isakov, Artem - Kotliarov, Artem - Křížek, Filip - Křížková Gajdošová, K. - Kushpil, Svetlana - Lavička, R. - Mareš, Jiří A. - Petráček, V. - Šafařík, K. - Torres, S. R. - Trzeciak, B. A. - Závada, Petr … Total 1024 authors
Measurement of prompt D_s⁺-meson production and azimuthal anisotropy in Pb-Pb collisions at √s_NN = 5.02 TeV.
Physics Letters. B. Roč. 827, APR (2022), č. článku 136986. ISSN 0370-2693. E-ISSN 1873-2445
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ II - 90104
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : ALICE collaboration * heavy ion collisions
OECD category: Nuclear physics; Particles and field physics (FZU-D)
Impact factor: 4.3, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2022.136986

The production yield and angular anisotropy of prompt D-s(+) mesons were measured as a function of transverse momentum (p(T)) in Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair root s(NN) = 5.02 TeV collected with the ALICE detector at the LHC. D-s(+) mesons and their charge conjugates were reconstructed at midrapidity (vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.5) from their hadronic decay channel D-s(+) -> phi pi(+), with phi -> K-K+, in the p(T) intervals 2 < p(T) < 50 GeV/c and 2 < p(T) < 36 GeV/c for the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality intervals. For p(T) > 10 GeV/c, the measured D-s(+)-meson nuclear modification factor R-AA is consistent with the one of non-strange D mesons within uncertainties, while at lower p(T) a hint for a D-s(+)-meson R-AA larger than that of non-strange D mesons is seen. The enhanced production of D-s(+) relative to non-strange D mesons is also studied by comparing the p(T)-dependent D-s(+)/D-0 production yield ratios in Pb-Pb and in pp collisions. The ratio measured in Pb-Pb collisions is found to be on average higher than that in pp collisions in the interval 2 < p(T) < 8 GeV/c with a significance of 2.3 sigma and 2.4 sigma for the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality intervals. The azimuthal anisotropy coefficient v(2) of prompt D-s(+) mesons was measured in Pb-Pb collisions in the 30-50% centrality interval and is found to be compatible with that of non-strange D mesons. The main features of the measured R-AA, D-s(+)/D-0 ratio, and v(2) as a function of p(T) are described by theoretical calculations of charm-quark transport in a hydrodynamically expanding quark-gluon plasma including hadronisation via charm-quark recombination with light quarks from the medium. The p(T)-integrated production yield of D-s(+) mesons is compatible with the prediction of the statistical hadronisation model.
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