Transverse momentum dependence of D-meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at root S-NN=2.76 TeV


Adam J., Adamova D., Aggarwal M. M., Rinella G. A., Agnello M., Agrawal N., ...More

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, vol.2016, no.3, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 2016 Issue: 3
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.1007/jhep03(2016)081
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Keywords: Heavy ion Experiments, Quark gluon plasma, Charm physics, HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS, ENERGY-LOSS, JET SUPPRESSION, QUARK, FLAVOR, CHARM, LHC, SPECTRA, FLOW, PA
  • Bursa Uludag University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The production of prompt charmed mesons D-0, D+ and D*(+), and their antiparticles, was measured with the ALICE detector in Pb-Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair, root s(NN), of 2.76 TeV. The production yields for rapidity vertical bar y vertical bar < 0.5 are presented as a function of transverse momentum, p(T), in the interval 1-36 GeV/c for the centrality class 0-10% and in the interval 1-16 GeV/c for the centrality class 30-50%. The nuclear modification factor R-AA was computed using a proton-proton reference at root s = 2.76 TeV, based on measurements at root s = 7 TeV and on theoretical calculations. A maximum suppression by a factor of 5-6 with respect to binary-scaled pp yields is observed for the most central collisions at p(T) of about 10 GeV/c. A suppression by a factor of about 2-3 persists at the highest p(T) covered by the measurements. At low p(T) (1-3 GeV/c), the R-AA has large uncertainties that span the range 0.35 (factor of about 3 suppression) to 1 (no suppression). In all p(T) intervals, the R-AA is larger in the 30-50% centrality class compared to central collisions. The D-meson R-AA is also compared with that of charged pions and, at large p(T), charged hadrons, and with model calculations.