We report on the measurement of the inclusive ϒ{hooked}(1S) production in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV carried out at forward rapidity (2.5<4) and down to zero transverse momentum using its μ+μ- decay channel with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A strong suppression of the inclusive ϒ{hooked}(1S) yield is observed with respect to pp collisions scaled by the number of independent nucleon-nucleon collisions. The nuclear modification factor, for events in the 0-90% centrality range, amounts to 0.30±0.05(stat)±0.04(syst). The observed ϒ{hooked}(1S) suppression tends to increase with the centrality of the collision and seems more pronounced than in corresponding mid-rapidity measurements. Our results are compared with model calculations, which are found to underestimate the measured suppression and fail to reproduce its rapidity dependence. © 2014 The Authors.

Suppression of Upsilon(1S) at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

Barbera R.;La Rocca P.;Petta C.;Riggi F.;
2014-01-01

Abstract

We report on the measurement of the inclusive ϒ{hooked}(1S) production in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV carried out at forward rapidity (2.5<4) and down to zero transverse momentum using its μ+μ- decay channel with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A strong suppression of the inclusive ϒ{hooked}(1S) yield is observed with respect to pp collisions scaled by the number of independent nucleon-nucleon collisions. The nuclear modification factor, for events in the 0-90% centrality range, amounts to 0.30±0.05(stat)±0.04(syst). The observed ϒ{hooked}(1S) suppression tends to increase with the centrality of the collision and seems more pronounced than in corresponding mid-rapidity measurements. Our results are compared with model calculations, which are found to underestimate the measured suppression and fail to reproduce its rapidity dependence. © 2014 The Authors.
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