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Study of B Meson Production in p + Pb Collisions at √sNN = 5.02  TeV Using Exclusive Hadronic Decays

Abstract

The production cross sections of the B^+, B^0, and B^0_s mesons, and of their charge conjugates, are measured via exclusive hadronic decays in p+Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy √sNN = 5.02  TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC. The data set used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 34.6  nb^(−1). The production cross sections are measured in the transverse momentum range between 10 and 60  GeV/c. No significant modification is observed compared to proton-proton perturbative QCD calculations scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. These results provide a baseline for the study of in-medium b quark energy loss in Pb+Pb collisions.

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© 2016 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Received 26 August 2015; published 22 January 2016. We congratulate our colleagues in the CERN accelerator departments for the excellent performance of the LHC and thank the technical and administrative staffs at CERN and at other CMS institutes for their contributions to the success of the CMS effort. In addition, we gratefully acknowledge the computing centers and personnel of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid for delivering so effectively the computing infrastructure essential to our analyses. Finally, we acknowledge the enduring support for the construction and operation of the LHC and the CMS detector provided by the following funding agencies: BMWFW and FWF (Austria); FNRS and FWO (Belgium); CNPq, CAPES, FAPERJ, and FAPESP (Brazil); MES (Bulgaria); CERN; CAS, MoST, and NSFC (China); COLCIENCIAS (Colombia); MSES and CSF (Croatia); RPF (Cyprus); MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia); the Academy of Finland, MEC, and HIP (Finland); CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 (France); BMBF, DFG, and HGF (Germany); GSRT (Greece); OTKA and NIH (Hungary); DAE and DST (India); IPM (Iran); SFI (Ireland); INFN (Italy); MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea); LAS (Lithuania); MOE and UM (Malaysia); CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico); MBIE (New Zealand); PAEC (Pakistan); MSHE and NSC (Poland); FCT (Portugal); JINR (Dubna); MON, RosAtom, RAS, and RFBR (Russia); MESTD (Serbia); SEIDI and CPAN (Spain); Swiss Funding Agencies (Switzerland); MST (Taipei); ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand); TUBITAK and TAEK (Turkey); NASU and SFFR (Ukraine); STFC (United Kingdom); and DOE and NSF (U.S.).

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Alternative title
Study of B meson production in pPb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV

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Funding

Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
Ministry of Education, Youth and Science (Bulgaria)
CERN
Chinese Academy of Sciences
COLCIENCIAS (Colombia)
MSES and CSF (Croatia)
RPF (Cyprus)
MoER, ERC IUT, and ERDF (Estonia)
Academy of Finland
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT)
OTKA and NIH (Hungary)
DAE and DST (India)
IPM (Iran)
Science Foundation, Ireland
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
MSIP and NRF (Republic of Korea)
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
MOE and UM (Malaysia)
CINVESTAV, CONACYT, SEP, and UASLP-FAI (Mexico)
MBIE (New Zealand)
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission
MSHE and NSC (Poland)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
JINR (Dubna)
MON, RosAtom, RAS, and RFBR (Russia)
MESTD (Serbia)
SEIDI and CPAN (Spain)
Swiss Funding Agencies
Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
ThEPCenter, IPST, STAR, and NSTDA (Thailand)
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurum (TÜBİTAK)
NASU and SFFR (Ukraine)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Department of Energy (DOE)
NSF
FWF Der Wissenschaftsfonds
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)
Helsinki Institute of Physics
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF)
Türkiye Atom Enerjisi Kurumu (TAEK)

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