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Inclusive, prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV

Abstract

The transverse momentum (pT) dependence of the nuclear modification factor RAA and the centrality dependence of the average transverse momentum 〈pT〉 for inclusive J/ψ have been measured with ALICE for Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76$$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV in the e+e− decay channel at mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.8). The 〈pT〉 is significantly smaller than the one observed for pp collisions at the same centre-of-mass energy. Consistently, an increase of RAA is observed towards low pT. These observations might be indicative of a sizable contribution of charm quark coalescence to the J/ψ production. Additionally, the fraction of non-prompt J/ψ from beauty hadron decays, fB, has been determined in the region 1.5 < pT< 10 GeV/c in three centrality intervals. No significant centrality dependence of fB is observed. Finally, the RAA of non-prompt J/ψ is discussed and compared with model predictions. The nuclear modification in the region 4.5 < pT< 10 GeV/c is found to be stronger than predicted by most models.

Authors

The ALICE collaboration; Adam J; Adamová D; Aggarwal MM; Aglieri Rinella G; Agnello M; Agrawal N; Ahammed Z; Ahn SU; Aimo I

Journal

Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2015, No. 7,

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

July 10, 2015

DOI

10.1007/jhep07(2015)051

ISSN

1126-6708

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