Abstract

The nuclear modification factor R_{mathrm{AA}} and the azimuthal anisotropy coefficient v_{2} of prompt and nonprompt (i.e. those from decays of b hadrons) {mathrm{J}}/psi mesons, measured from PbPb and pp collisions at sqrt{{s_{_{text {NN}}}}} =2.76,mathrm{TeV} at the LHC, are reported. The results are presented in several event centrality intervals and several kinematic regions, for transverse momenta p_{mathrm{T}} >6.5,{mathrm{GeV}}/{mathrm{c}} and rapidity |{y}|<2.4, extending down to p_{mathrm{T}} =3,{mathrm{GeV}}/{mathrm{c}} in the 1.6<|{y}|<2.4 range. The v_{2} of prompt {mathrm{J}}/psi is found to be nonzero, but with no strong dependence on centrality, rapidity, or p_{mathrm{T}} over the full kinematic range studied. The measured v_{2} of nonprompt {mathrm{J}}/psi is consistent with zero. The R_{mathrm{AA}} of prompt {mathrm{J}}/psi exhibits a suppression that increases from peripheral to central collisions but does not vary strongly as a function of either y or p_{mathrm{T}} in the fiducial range. The nonprompt {mathrm{J}}/psi R_{mathrm{AA}} shows a suppression which becomes stronger as rapidity or p_{mathrm{T}} increases. The v_{2} and R_{mathrm{AA}} of open and hidden charm, and of open charm and beauty, are compared.

Highlights

  • Recent data from RHIC and the CERN LHC for mesons containing charm and beauty quarks have allowed more detailed theoretical and experimental studies [1] of the phenomenology of these heavy quarks in a deconfined quark gluon plasma (QGP) [2] at large energy densities and high temperatures [3]

  • Whether as quarkonium states QQ [4] or as mesons made of heavy-light quark– antiquark pairs Qq [5], are considered key probes of the QGP, since their short formation time allows them to probe all stages of the QGP evolution [1]

  • nucleons participating in the collisions (Npart) of prompt D0 mesons, and of averaged prompt D mesons (D0, D+ and D∗+ combined), measured in |y| < 0.5 at low pT (2 < pT < 5 GeV/c), and high pT (6 < pT < 12 GeV/c) [61] are used. These are compared to hidden charm data from the prompt J/ψ results described in this paper, in two pT regions that are similar to the D measurement, i.e. (3 < pT < 6.5 GeV/c, 1.6 < |y| < 2.4) and (6.5 < pT < 30 GeV/c, |y| < 1.2)

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Introduction

Recent data from RHIC and the CERN LHC for mesons containing charm and beauty quarks have allowed more detailed theoretical and experimental studies [1] of the phenomenology of these heavy quarks in a deconfined quark gluon plasma (QGP) [2] at large energy densities and high temperatures [3]. The importance of an unambiguous and detailed measurement of open beauty flavour is driven by the need to understand key features of the dynamics of parton interactions and hadron formation in the QGP: the colour-charge and parton-mass dependences for the inmedium interactions [5,10,11,12,13], the relative contribution of radiative and collisional energy loss [14,15,16], and the effects of different hadron formation times [17,18] Another aspect of the heavy-quark phenomenology in the QGP concerns differences in the behaviour (energy loss mechanisms, amount and strength of interactions with the surrounding medium) of a QQ pair (the pre-quarkonium state) relative to that of a single heavy quark Q (the pre-meson component) [19,20,21]

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