Observation of Sequential υ Suppression in PbPb Collisions

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作者
Chatrchyan, S. [1 ]
Khachatryan, V. [1 ]
Sirunyan, A. M. [1 ]
Tumasyan, A. [1 ]
Adam, W. [2 ]
Aguilo, E. [2 ]
Bergauer, T. [2 ]
Dragicevic, M. [2 ]
Eroe, J. [2 ]
Fabjan, C. [2 ,180 ]
Friedl, M. [2 ]
Fruehwirth, R. [2 ,180 ]
Ghete, V. M. [2 ]
Hammer, J. [2 ]
Hoermann, N. [2 ]
Hrubec, J. [2 ]
Jeitler, M. [2 ,180 ]
Kiesenhofer, W. [2 ]
Knuenz, V. [2 ]
Krammer, M. [2 ,180 ]
Kraetschmer, I. [2 ]
Liko, D. [2 ]
Mikulec, I. [2 ]
Pernicka, M. [2 ]
Rahbaran, B. [2 ]
Rohringer, C. [2 ]
Rohringer, H. [2 ]
Schoefbeck, R. [2 ]
Strauss, J. [2 ]
Taurok, A. [2 ]
Waltenberger, W. [2 ]
Walzel, G. [2 ]
Widl, E. [2 ]
Wulz, C. -E. [2 ,180 ]
Mossolov, V. [3 ]
Shumeiko, N. [3 ]
Gonzalez, J. Suarez [3 ]
Bansal, S. [4 ]
Cornelis, T. [4 ]
De Wolf, E. A. [4 ]
Janssen, X. [4 ]
Luyckx, S. [4 ]
Mucibello, L. [4 ]
Ochesanu, S. [4 ]
Roland, B. [4 ]
Rougny, R. [4 ]
Selvaggi, M. [4 ]
Staykova, Z. [4 ]
Van Haevermaet, H. [4 ]
Van Mechelen, P. [4 ]
机构
[1] Yerevan Phys Inst, Yerevan 375036, Armenia
[2] Inst Hochenergiephys OeAW, Vienna, Austria
[3] Natl Ctr Particle & High Energy Phys, Minsk, BELARUS
[4] Univ Antwerp, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
[5] Vrije Univ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
[6] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
[7] Univ Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[8] Catholic Univ Louvain, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium
[9] Univ Mons, B-7000 Mons, Belgium
[10] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[11] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, BR-20550011 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[12] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01405 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[13] Bulgarian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res & Nucl Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria
[14] Univ Sofia, BU-1126 Sofia, Bulgaria
[15] Inst High Energy Phys, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
[16] Peking Univ, State Key Lab Nucl Phys & Technol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[17] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[18] Tech Univ Split, Split, Croatia
[19] Univ Split, Split, Croatia
[20] Rudjer Boskovic Inst, Zagreb, Croatia
[21] Univ Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
[22] Charles Univ Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
[23] Acad Sci Res & Technol Arab Republ Egypt, Egyptian Network High Energy Phys, Cairo, Egypt
[24] NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
[25] Univ Helsinki, Dept Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[26] Helsinki Inst Phys, Helsinki, Finland
[27] Lappeenranta Univ Technol, Lappeenranta, Finland
[28] CEA Saclay, DSM IRFU, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[29] Ecole Polytech, CNRS IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, Palaiseau, France
[30] Univ Haute Alsace Mulhouse, Univ Strasbourg, Inst Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, CNRS IN2P3, Strasbourg, France
[31] CNRS IN2P3, Inst Natl Phys Nucl & Phys Particules, Ctr Calcul, Villeurbanne, France
[32] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS IN2P3, Inst Phys Nucl Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[33] Tbilisi State Univ, Inst High Energy Phys & Informatizat, GE-380086 Tbilisi, Georgia
[34] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst 1, Aachen, Germany
[35] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst A 3, Aachen, Germany
[36] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst B 3, Aachen, Germany
[37] DESY, Hamburg, Germany
[38] Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
[39] Univ Karlsruhe, Inst Expt Kernphys, D-7500 Karlsruhe, Germany
[40] Inst Nucl Phys Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
[41] Univ Athens, Athens, Greece
[42] Univ Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
[43] KFKI Res Inst Particle & Nucl Phys, Budapest, Hungary
[44] Inst Nucl Res ATOMKI, Debrecen, Hungary
[45] Univ Debrecen, H-4012 Debrecen, Hungary
[46] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[47] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[48] Saha Inst Nucl Phys, Kolkata, India
[49] Bhabha Atom Res Ctr, Mumbai 400085, Maharashtra, India
[50] Tata Inst Fundamental Res EHEP, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 芬兰科学院;
关键词
Binary alloys - Lead alloys;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.222301
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The suppression of the individual gamma (nS) states in PbPb collisions with respect to their yields in pp data has been measured. The PbPb and pp data sets used in the analysis correspond to integrated luminosities of 150 mu b(-1) and 230 nb(-1), respectively, collected in 2011 by the CMS experiment at the LHC, at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of 2.76 TeV. The gamma (nS) yields are measured from the dimuon invariant mass spectra. The suppression of the gamma (nS) yields in PbPb relative to the yields in pp, scaled by the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions, R-AA, is measured as a function of the collision centrality. Integrated over centrality, the R-AA values are 0.56 +/- 0.08(stat) +/- 0.07(syst), 0.12 +/- 0.04(stat) +/- 0.02(syst), and lower than 0.10 (at 95% confidence level), for the gamma (1S), gamma (2S), and gamma (3S) states, respectively. The results demonstrate the sequential suppression of the gamma (nS) states in PbPb collisions at LHC energies.
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