Production of the ρ(770)0 meson in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
Acharya, Shreyasi; Acosta, Fernando Torales; Adamová, Dagmar; Adolfsson, Jonatan; Aggarwal, Madan M.; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, Neelima; Ahammed, Zubayer; Ahn, Sang Un; Alme, Johan; Altenkaemper, Lucas; Djuvsland, Øystein; Ersdal, Magnus Rentsch; Fionda, Fiorella Maria Celeste; Nystrand, Joakim; Rehman, Attiq ur; Røhrich, Dieter; Tambave, Ganesh Jagannath; Ullaland, Kjetil; Velure, Arild; Wagner, Boris; Zhou, Zhuo; Arsene, Ionut Cristian; Bätzing, Paul Christoph; Dordic, Olja; Lardeux, Antoine Xavier; Lindal, Svein; Mahmood, Sohail Musa; Richter, Matthias; Røed, Ketil; Skaali, Toralf Bernhard; Tveter, Trine Spedstad; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Zhao, Chengxin; Helstrup, Håvard; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust; Kileng, Bjarte; Nesbø, Simon Voigt; Storetvedt, Maksim Melnik; Langøy, Rune; Lien, Jørgen André; Aiola, Salvatore; Akindinov, Alexander; Al-Turany, Mohammed; Alam, Sk Noor; De Albuquerque, Danilo Silva; Aleksandrov, Dimitry; Alessandro, Bruno; Alfaro Molina, José Rubén; ALICE, Collaboration
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Acharya, S., Acosta, F. T.-., Adamová, D., Adolfsson, J., Aggarwal, M. M., Aglieri Rinella, G., … ALICE Collaboration. (2019). Production of the ρ(770)0 meson in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV. Physical Review C, 99(6), 064901. 10.1103/PhysRevC.99.064901Abstract
The production of the ρ(770)0 meson has been measured at midrapidity (|y| < 0.5) in pp and centrality differential Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The particles have been reconstructed in the ρ(770)0 → π+π− decay channel in the transverse-momentum (pT ) range 0.5–11 GeV/c. A centrality-dependent suppression of the ratio of the integrated yields 2ρ(770)0/(π+ + π−) is observed. The ratio decreases by ∼40% from pp to central Pb-Pb collisions. A study of the pT -differential 2ρ(770)0/(π+ + π−) ratio reveals that the suppression occurs at low transverse momenta, pT < 2 GeV/c. At higher momentum, particle ratios measured in heavy-ion and pp collisions are consistent. The observed suppression is very similar to that previously measured for the K∗ (892)0 /K ratio and is consistent with EPOS3 predictions that may imply that rescattering in the hadronic phase is a dominant mechanism for the observed suppression.