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Prompt and non-prompt and suppression at high transverse momentum in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS experiment

arXiv:1805.04077 · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6219-9

Abstract

A measurement of and production is presented. It is based on a data sample from Pb+Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV and collisions at = 5.02 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in 2015, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of and in Pb+Pb and , respectively. The measurements of per-event yields, nuclear modification factors, and non-prompt fractions are performed in the dimuon decay channel for GeV in dimuon transverse momentum, and in rapidity. Strong suppression is found in Pb+Pb collisions for both prompt and non-prompt , as well as for prompt and non-prompt , increasing with event centrality. The suppression of prompt is observed to be stronger than that of , while the suppression of non-prompt is equal to that of the non-prompt within uncertainties, consistent with the expectation that both arise from \textit{b}-quarks propagating through the medium. Despite prompt and non-prompt arising from different mechanisms, the dependence of their nuclear modification factors on centrality is found to be quite similar.

39 pages in total, author list starting page 23, 9 figures, 3 tables, submitted to EPJC. All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PAPERS/HION-2016-07

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