Transverse momentum spectra of b jets in pPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV
(2016) Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics — Vol. B754, p. 59-80 (2016)
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- We present a measurement of b jet transverse momentum (pt) spectra in proton-lead (pPb) collisions using a dataset corresponding to about 35 inverse nanobarns collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Jets from b quark fragmentation are found by exploiting the long lifetime of hadrons containing a b quark through tagging methods using distributions of the secondary vertex mass and displacement. Extracted cross sections for b jets are scaled by the effective number of nucleon-nucleon collisions and are compared to a reference obtained from PYTHIA simulations of pp collisions. The PYTHIA-based estimate of the nuclear modification factor is found to be 1.22 +/- 0.15 (stat + syst pPb) +/- 0.27 (syst PYTHIA) averaged over all jets with pt between 55 and 400 GeV/c and with abs(eta[lab]) < 2. We also compare this result to predictions from models using perturbative calculations in quantum chromodynamics.
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CMS, Basegmez, S., Beluffi, C., Bondu, O., Brochet, S., Bruno, G., Castello, R., Caudron, A., Ceard, L., Da Silveira, G. G., Delaere, C., Favart, D., Forthomme, L., Giammanco, A., Hollar, J., Jafari, A., Jez, P., Komm, M., Lemaitre, V., et al. (2016). Transverse momentum spectra of b jets in pPb collisions at sqrt(s[NN]) = 5.02 TeV. Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, B754, 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.010 (Original work published 2016)