Measurement of beauty production via non-prompt D.sup.0./sup. mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV

0567957 - ÚJF 2023 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Acharya, S. - Adamová, Dagmar - Adler, A. - Adolfsson, J. - Bielčík, J. - Bielčíková, Jana - Broz, M. - Contreras, J. G. - Filová, V. - Grecká, Ekaterina - Grund, D. - Herman, T. - Horák, D. - Isakov, Artem - Kotliarov, Artem - Krupová, D. M. - Křížek, Filip - Křížková Gajdošová, K. - Kushpil, Svetlana - Lavička, R. - Petráček, V. - Šafařík, K. - Torres, S. R. - Závada, Petr … Total 1018 authors
Measurement of beauty production via non-prompt D⁰ mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV.
Journal of High Energy Physics. Roč. 2022, č. 12 (2022), č. článku 126. ISSN 1029-8479. E-ISSN 1029-8479
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTT17018
Research Infrastructure: CERN-CZ II - 90104
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : ALICE collaboration * heavy ion experiments * heavy quark production
OECD category: Nuclear physics; Particles and field physics (FZU-D)
Impact factor: 5.4, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2022)126

The production of non-prompt D0 mesons from beauty-hadron decays was measured at midrapidity (|y| < 0.5) in Pb-Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of sNN = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Their nuclear modification factor (RAA), measured for the first time down to pT = 1 GeV/c in the 0–10% and 30–50% centrality classes, indicates a significant suppression, up to a factor of about three, for pT> 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 D0-meson RAA is larger than unity for pT> 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.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339265