@article{d450bd4c0d9946c4a70a47c55e7bc937,
title = "Measurement of the B± Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV",
abstract = "The differential production cross sections of B± mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B±→J/ψK±→μ+μ-K± as a function of transverse momentum in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy sNN=5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at the LHC. The pp(Pb-Pb) data set used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 28.0 pb-1 (351 μb-1). The measurement is performed in the B± meson transverse momentum range of 7 to 50 GeV/c, in the rapidity interval |y|<2.4. In this kinematic range, a strong suppression of the production cross section by about a factor of 2 is observed in the Pb-Pb system in comparison to the expectation from pp reference data. These results are found to be roughly compatible with theoretical calculations incorporating beauty quark diffusion and energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma.",
author = "\{(CMS Collaboration)\} and Sirunyan, \{A. M.\} and A. Tumasyan and W. Adam and E. Asilar and T. Bergauer and J. Brandstetter and E. Brondolin and M. Dragicevic and J. Er{\"o} and M. Flechl and M. Friedl and R. Fr{\"u}hwirth and Ghete, \{V. M.\} and N. H{\"o}rmann and J. Hrubec and M. Jeitler and A. K{\"o}nig and I. Kr{\"a}tschmer and D. Liko and T. Matsushita and I. Mikulec and D. Rabady and N. Rad and H. Rohringer and J. Schieck and J. Strauss and W. Waltenberger and Wulz, \{C. E.\} and V. Chekhovsky and V. Mossolov and \{Suarez Gonzalez\}, J. and N. Shumeiko and S. Alderweireldt and \{De Wolf\}, \{E. A.\} and X. Janssen and J. Lauwers and \{Van De Klundert\}, M. and \{Van Haevermaet\}, H. and \{Van Mechelen\}, P. and \{Van Remortel\}, N. and \{Van Spilbeeck\}, A. and \{Abu Zeid\}, S. and F. Blekman and J. D'Hondt and \{De Bruyn\}, I. and \{De Clercq\}, J. and K. Deroover and R. Arcidiacono and M. Arneodo and M. Ruspa",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 CERN, for the CMS Collaboration. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the «https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/» Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.",
year = "2017",
month = oct,
day = "13",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.152301",
language = "English",
volume = "119",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "15",
}