Measurement of prompt and nonprompt charmonium suppression in $$\text {PbPb}$$ collisions at 5.02 $$\,\text {Te}\text {V}$$
A. Sirunyan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia); A. Tumasyan (Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia); W. Adam (Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Wien, Austria); F. Ambrogi (Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Wien, Austria); E. Asilar (Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Wien, Austria); et al - Show all 2258 authors
The nuclear modification factors of $${\mathrm {J}/\psi }$$ and $$\psi \text {(2S)}$$ mesons are measured in $$\text {PbPb}$$ collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of $$\sqrt{\smash [b]{s_{_{\text {NN}}}}} = 5.02\,\text {Te}\text {V} $$ . The analysis is based on $$\text {PbPb}$$ and $$\mathrm {p}\mathrm {p}$$ data samples collected by CMS at the LHC in 2015, corresponding to integrated luminosities of 464 $$\,\mu \mathrm {b}^{-1}$$ and 28 $$\,\text {pb}^\text {-1}$$ , respectively. The measurements are performed in the dimuon rapidity range of $$|y | < 2.4$$ as a function of centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum ( $$p_{\mathrm {T}}$$ ) from $$p_{\mathrm {T}} =3$$ $${\,\text {Ge}\text {V}/}\text {c}$$ in the most forward region and up to 50 $${\,\text {Ge}\text {V}/}\text {c}$$ . Both prompt and nonprompt (coming from b hadron decays) $${\mathrm {J}/\psi }$$ mesons are observed to be increasingly suppressed with centrality, with a magnitude similar to the one observed at $$\sqrt{\smash [b]{s_{_{\text {NN}}}}} = 2.76\,\text {Te}\text {V} $$ for the two $${\mathrm {J}/\psi }$$ meson components. No dependence on rapidity is observed for either prompt or nonprompt $${\mathrm {J}/\psi }$$ mesons. An indication of a lower prompt $${\mathrm {J}/\psi }$$ meson suppression at $$p_{\mathrm {T}} > 25$$ $${\,\text {Ge}\text {V}/}\text {c}$$ is seen with respect to that observed at intermediate $$p_{\mathrm {T}}$$ . The prompt $$\psi \text {(2S)}$$ meson yield is found to be more suppressed than that of the prompt $${\mathrm {J}/\psi }$$ mesons in the entire $$p_{\mathrm {T}}$$ range.