Inclusive J/psi production at forward and backward rapidity in p-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=8.16 TeV

S. Acharya, F Acosta, D. Adamova, J Adolfsson, MM. Aggarwal, G.A. Rinella, Maria Agnello, N. Agrawal, Z. Ahammed, S.U. Ahn, S. Aiola, A. Akindinov, M. Al-Turany, SN Alam, DSD Albuquerque, D. Aleksandrov, B. Alessandro, Rafael A. Molina, Yusuf Ali, A. AliciA. Alkin, J. Alme, Ian Bearden, Ante Bilandzic, Christian Alexander Bourjau, Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, bsm989 bsm989, You Zhou, Katarina Gajdosova, Ozelin De Lima Pimentel Lais, Børge Svane Nielsen, Freja Thoresen, Marek Chojnacki, rtc312 rtc312, Vytautas Vislavicius

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Abstract

Inclusive J/ψ production is studied in p-Pb interactions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon collision sNN=8.16 TeV, using the ALICE detector at the CERN LHC. The J/ψ meson is reconstructed, via its decay to a muon pair, in the centre-of-mass rapidity intervals 2.03 < ycms < 3.53 and −4.46 < ycms < −2.96, where positive and negative ycms refer to the p-going and Pb-going direction, respectively. The transverse momentum coverage is pT < 20 GeV/c. In this paper, ycms- and pT-differential cross sections for inclusive J/ψ production are presented, and the corresponding nuclear modification factors RpPb are shown. Forward results show a suppression of the J/ψ yield with respect to pp collisions, concentrated in the region pT ≲ 5 GeV/c. At backward rapidity no significant suppression is observed. The results are compared to previous measurements by ALICE in p-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV and to theoretical calculations. Finally, the ratios RFB between forward- and backward-ycmsRpPb values are shown and discussed.[Figure not available: see fulltext.].

Original languageEnglish
Article number160
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2018
Issue number7
Number of pages27
ISSN1126-6708
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2018

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