251. Inclusive J/ψ production at forward and backward rapidity in p-Pb collisions at sNN=8.16 TeV
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The ALICE collaboration, Acharya, S, Acosta, F T-, Adamová, D, Adolfsson, J, Aggarwal, MM, Aglieri Rinella, G, Agnello, M, Agrawal, N, Ahammed, Z, Ahn, SU, Aiola, S, Akindinov, A, Al-Turany, M, Alam, SN, Albuquerque, DSD, Aleksandrov, D, Alessandro, B, Alfaro Molina, R, Ali, Y, Alici, A, Alkin, A, Alme, J, Alt, T, Altenkamper, L, Altsybeev, I, Andrei, C, Andreou, D, Andrews, HA, Andronic, A, Angeletti, M, Anguelov, V, Anson, C, Antičić, T, Antinori, F, Antonioli, P, Anwar, R, Apadula, N, Aphecetche, L, Appelshäuser, H, Arcelli, S, Arnaldi, R, Arnold, OW, Arsene, IC, Arslandok, M, Audurier, B, Augustinus, A, Averbeck, R, Azmi, MD, Badalà, A, Baek, YW, Bagnasco, S, Bailhache, R, Bala, R, Baldisseri, A, Ball, M, Baral, RC, Barbano, AM, Barbera, R, Barile, F, Barioglio, L, Barnaföldi, GG, Barnby, LS, Barret, V, Bartalini, P, Barth, K, Bartsch, E, Bastid, N, Basu, S, Batigne, G, Batyunya, B, Batzing, PC, Bazo Alba, JL, Bearden, IG, Beck, H, Bedda, C, Behera, NK, Belikov, I, Bellini, F, Bello Martinez, H, Bellwied, R, Beltran, LGE, Belyaev, V, Bencedi, G, Beole, S, Bercuci, A, Berdnikov, Y, Berenyi, D, Bertens, RA, Berzano, D, Betev, L, Bhaduri, PP, Bhasin, A, Bhat, IR, Bhatt, H, Bhattacharjee, B, Bhom, J, Bianchi, A, Bianchi, L, and Bianchi, N
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Nuclear and Plasma Physics ,Particle and High Energy Physics ,Physical Sciences ,Heavy Ion Experiments ,Mathematical Physics ,Atomic ,Molecular ,Nuclear ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,Quantum Physics ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Mathematical physics ,Nuclear and plasma physics ,Particle and high energy physics - 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.].
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- 2018