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Inclusive, prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production at midrapidity in p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV

  • The ALICE collaboration
  • CERN
  • Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre India
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Lund University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Aligarh Muslim University
  • Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
  • Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
  • Indonesian Institute of Sciences
  • Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
  • Fudan University
  • Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
  • Central China Normal University
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • COMSATS University Islamabad
  • University of Houston
  • University of Bergen
  • St. Petersburg State University
  • Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics
  • University of Münster
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Nantes Université
  • University of Oslo
  • Yale University
  • Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie

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Abstract

A measurement of inclusive, prompt, and non-prompt J/ψ production in p-Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy sNN = 5.02 TeV is presented. The inclusive J/ψ mesons are reconstructed in the dielectron decay channel at midrapidity down to a transverse momentum pT = 0. The inclusive J/ψ nuclear modification factor RpPb is calculated by comparing the new results in p-Pb collisions to a recently measured proton-proton reference at the same centre-of-mass energy. Non-prompt J/ψ mesons, which originate from the decay of beauty hadrons, are separated from promptly produced J/ψ on a statistical basis for pT larger than 1.0 GeV/c. These results are based on the data sample collected by the ALICE detector during the 2016 LHC p-Pb run, corresponding to an integrated luminosity Lint = 292 ± 11 μb−1, which is six times larger than the previous publications. The total uncertainty on the pT-integrated inclusive J/ψ and non-prompt J/ψ cross section are reduced by a factor 1.7 and 2.2, respectively. The measured cross sections and RpPb are compared with theoretical models that include various combinations of cold nuclear matter effects. From the non-prompt J/ψ production cross section, the b b ¯ production cross section at midrapidity, d σbb ¯/dy, and the total cross section extrapolated over full phase space, σbb ¯, are derived. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original languageEnglish
Article number11
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2022
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022.06

Keywords

  • Heavy Ion Experiments

Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) Subject Topics

  • Physics & Astronomy

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