Bilki, Burak., ve diğer2019-07-122019-07-1220170031-9007https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.152301The differential production cross sections of B± mesons are measured via the exclusive decay channels B± ? J/? K± ? µ +µ ?K± as a function of transverse momentum in pp and PbPb collisions at a center-of-mass energy ? sNN = 5.02 TeV per nucleon pair with the CMS detector at the LHC. The pp (PbPb) dataset used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 28.0 pb?1 (351 µb ?1 ). The measurement is performed in the B± meson transverse momentum range of 7 to 50 GeV/c, in the rapidity interval |y| < 2.4. In this kinematic range, a strong suppression of the production cross section by about a factor of two is observed in the PbPb system in comparison to the expectation from pp reference data. These results are found to be roughly compatible with theoretical calculations incorporating beauty quark diffusion and energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma.enArticle10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.1523012-s2.0-8503169411829077459Q1WOS:000412979000008Q1