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Measurement of beauty production via non-prompt D0 mesons in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV
Alice Collaborationsubject
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsHeavy Ion ExperimentskvarkitHeavy Quark ProductionhiukkasfysiikkaQuark Gluon Plasmaydinfysiikkadescription
The production of non-prompt D0 mesons from beauty-hadron decays was measured at midrapidity (|y| 5 GeV/c in the 0–10% central Pb-Pb collisions. The data are described by models that include both collisional and radiative processes in the calculation of beauty-quark energy loss in the quark-gluon plasma, and quark recombination in addition to fragmentation as a hadronisation mechanism. The ratio of the non-prompt to prompt D0-meson RAA is larger than unity for pT> 4 GeV/c in the 0–10% central Pb-Pb collisions, as predicted by models in which beauty quarks lose less energy than charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma because of their larger mass. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-21 |