Measurement of beauty-strange meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV via non-prompt Ds+ mesons

作者：Acharya, S.; Adamova, D.; Adler, A.; Rinella, G. Aglieri; Agnello, M.; Agrawal, N.; Ahammed, Z.; Ahmad, S.; Ahn, S. U.; Ahuja, I; Akindinov, A.; Al-Turany, M.; Aleksandrov, D.; Alessandro, B.; Alfanda, H. M.; Alfaro Molina, R.; Ali, B.; Ali, Y.; Alici, A.; Alizadehvandchali, N.; Alkin, A.; Alme, J.; Alocco, G.; Alt, T.; Altsybeev, I; Anaam, M. N.; Andrei, C.; Andronic, A.; Anguelov, V; Antinori, F.; Antonioli, P.; Anuj, C.; Apadula, N.; Aphecetche, L.; Appelshaeuser, H.; Arcelli, S.

来源：Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics , 2023, 846: 137561.

DOI：10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137561

• QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
• ENERGY-LOSS
• HEAVY-FLAVOR
• SUPPRESSION
• MATTER
• QCD
• PERSPECTIVE
• J/PSI
• HOT
• PP

The production yields of non-prompt D-s(+) smesons, namely D-s(+) smesons 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 root s(NN)= 5.02TeVwith the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The D-s(+) smesons and their charge conjugates were reconstructed from the hadronic decay channel D-s(+) -> phi pi+, with phi -> K- K+, in the 4 < pT< 36GeV/cand 2 < pT< 24GeV/cintervals for the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality classes, respectively. The measured yields of non-prompt D-s(+) smesons are compared to those of prompt D-s(+) sand 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(+) sand prompt D-s(+) smesons, and that between the R-AA of non-prompt D-s(+) sand non-prompt D-0 mesons in central Pb-Pb collisions are found to be on average higher than unity in the 4 < p(T) < 12GeV/c interval with a statistical significance of about 1.6 sigma and 1.7 sigma, 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.