Measurement of beauty-strange meson production in Pb–Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV via non-prompt D s + mesons
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· Physics Letters. B
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- Univ. Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (France); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Clermont-Ferrand (CNRS) (France); ALICE Collaboration. et al.
The production yields of non-prompt $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ mesons, namely $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ mesons from beauty-hadron decays, were measured for the first time as a function of the transverse momentum ($$p_T$$) at midrapidity (|$$y$$| < 0.5) in central and semi-central Pb–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair $$\sqrt{s{NN}}$$ = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ mesons and their charge conjugates were reconstructed from the hadronic decay channel $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ → $φπ^+$, with $$φ$$ → K-K+, in the 4 < $$p_T$$ < 36 GeV/c and 2 < $$p_T$$ < 24 GeV/ $$c$$ intervals for the 0–10% and 30–50% centrality classes, respectively. The measured yields of non-prompt $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ mesons are compared to those of prompt $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ and non-prompt $D^0$ mesons by calculating the ratios of the production yields in Pb–Pb collisions and the nuclear modification factor $$R_{AA}$$. The ratio between the $$R_{AA}$$ of non-prompt $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ prompt $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ mesons, and that between the $$R_{AA}$$ of non-prompt $${D}^{+}_{s}$$ and non-prompt $D^0$ mesons in central Pb–Pb collisions are found to be on average higher than unity in the 4 < $$p_T$$ < 12 GeV/ $$c$$ interval with a statistical significance of about 1.6σ and 1.7σ, respectively. The measured $$R_{AA}$$ ratios are compared with the predictions of theoretical models of heavy-quark transport in a hydrodynamically expanding QGP that incorporate hadronisation via quark recombination.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
- Contributing Organization:
- ALICE Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 2320355
- Journal Information:
- Physics Letters. B, Journal Name: Physics Letters. B Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 846; ISSN 0370-2693
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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