HEAVY-FLAVOR PRODUCTION IN THE CMS

Abstract

The compact muon solenoid (CMS) detector at the large hadron collider (LHC) is ideal to measure the heavy flavor production, especially, in the dimuon channels in high-multiplicity environment. Compared to the pp data scaled by the number of binary collisions, the yields of prompt and non-prompt J/psi and gamma(1S) in Pb-Pb collisions are strongly suppressed at root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV. In addition, the excited gamma(2S+3S) states are also suppressed relative to the ground gamma(1S) state in Pb-Pb collisions. These results consistently indicate a significant medium effect on the heavy-flavor production in heavy-ion collisions at LHC.