David Silvermyr
Senior lecturer
ϒ production and nuclear modification at forward rapidity in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV
Author
Summary, in English
The production of ϒ mesons in Pb–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair sNN=5.02 TeV is measured with the muon spectrometer of the ALICE detector at the LHC. The yields as well as the nuclear modification factors are determined in the forward rapidity region 2.5<y<4.0, as a function of rapidity, transverse momentum and collision centrality. The results show that the production of the ϒ(1S) meson is suppressed by a factor of about three with respect to the production in proton–proton collisions. For the first time, a significant signal for the ϒ(2S) meson is observed at forward rapidity, indicating a suppression stronger by about a factor 2–3 with respect to the ground state. The measurements are compared with transport, hydrodynamic, comover and statistical hadronisation model calculations. © 2021 European Organization for Nuclear Research, ALICE
Department/s
- Particle and nuclear physics
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2021-11-10
Language
English
Publication/Series
Physics Letters B
Volume
822
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Subatomic Physics
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 0370-2693