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Prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production at midrapidity in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN = 5.02 TeV
Ist Teil von
The journal of high energy physics, 2024-02, Vol.2024 (2), p.66
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A
bstract
The transverse momentum (
p
T
) and centrality dependence of the nuclear modification factor
R
AA
of prompt and non-prompt J/
ψ
, the latter originating from the weak decays of beauty hadrons, have been measured by the ALICE collaboration in Pb–Pb collisions at
s
NN
= 5.02 TeV. The measurements are carried out through the e
+
e
−
decay channel at midrapidity (|
y
| < 0.9) in the transverse momentum region 1.5 <
p
T
< 10 GeV/
c
. Both prompt and non-prompt J/
ψ
measurements indicate a significant suppression for
p
T
> 5 GeV/
c
, which becomes stronger with increasing collision centrality. The results are consistent with similar LHC measurements in the overlapping
p
T
intervals, and cover the kinematic region down to
p
T
= 1.5 GeV/
c
at midrapidity, not accessible by other LHC experiments. The suppression of prompt J/
ψ
in central and semicentral collisions exhibits a decreasing trend towards lower transverse momentum, described within uncertainties by models implementing J/
ψ
production from recombination of c and
c
¯
quarks produced independently in different partonic scatterings. At high transverse momentum, transport models including quarkonium dissociation are able to describe the suppression for prompt J/
ψ
. For non-prompt J/
ψ
, the suppression predicted by models including both collisional and radiative processes for the computation of the beauty-quark energy loss inside the quark-gluon plasma is consistent with measurements within uncertainties.