TY - JOUR
T1 - phi meson production at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV
AU - Acharya, S.
AU - Acosta, F.T.
AU - Adamova, D.
AU - Adolfsson, J
AU - Aggarwal, MM.
AU - Rinella, G.A.
AU - Agnello, M.
AU - Agrawal, N.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Ahn, S.U.
AU - Aiola, S.
AU - Akindinov, A.
AU - Al-Turany, M.
AU - Alam, SN
AU - Albuquerque, DSD
AU - Aleksandrov, D.
AU - Bearden, Ian
AU - Bilandzic, Ante
AU - Bourjau, Christian Alexander
AU - Pimentel, Lais Ozelin de Lima
AU - Chojnacki, Marek
AU - Gaardhøje, Jens Jørgen
AU - Thoresen, Freja
AU - Nielsen, Børge Svane
AU - bsm989, bsm989
AU - Pacik, Vojtech
AU - Zhou, You
AU - Vislavicius, Vytautas
AU - Gajdosova, Katarina
AU - rtc312, rtc312
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - ϕ meson measurements provide insight into strangeness production, which is one of the key observables for the hot medium formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. ALICE measured ϕ production through its decay in muon pairs in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV in the intermediate transverse momentum range 2 < pT< 5 GeV/c and in the rapidity interval 2.5 < y< 4. The ϕ yield was measured as a function of the transverse momentum and collision centrality. The nuclear modification factor was obtained as a function of the average number of participating nucleons. Results were compared with the ones obtained via the kaon decay channel in the same pT range at midrapidity. The values of the nuclear modification factor in the two rapidity regions are in agreement within uncertainties.
AB - ϕ meson measurements provide insight into strangeness production, which is one of the key observables for the hot medium formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. ALICE measured ϕ production through its decay in muon pairs in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV in the intermediate transverse momentum range 2 < pT< 5 GeV/c and in the rapidity interval 2.5 < y< 4. The ϕ yield was measured as a function of the transverse momentum and collision centrality. The nuclear modification factor was obtained as a function of the average number of participating nucleons. Results were compared with the ones obtained via the kaon decay channel in the same pT range at midrapidity. The values of the nuclear modification factor in the two rapidity regions are in agreement within uncertainties.
U2 - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6034-3
DO - 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6034-3
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1434-6044
VL - 78
JO - European Physical Journal C
JF - European Physical Journal C
IS - 7
M1 - 559
ER -