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Production of prompt D 0 mesons is studied in proton-lead and lead-proton collisions recorded at the LHCb detector at the LHC. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 1.58±0.02 nb−1 recorded at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy of \( \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5 \) TeV. Measurements of the differential cross-section, the forward-backward production ratio and the nuclear modification factor are reported using D 0 candidates with transverse momenta less than 10 GeV/c and rapidities in the ranges 1.5 < y ∗ < 4.0 and −5.0 < y ∗ < −2.5 in the nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass system.
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The LHCb collaboration., Aaij, R., Adeva, B. et al. Study of prompt D 0 meson production in pPb collisions at \( \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{N}\;\mathrm{N}}}=5 \) TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 90 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2017)090
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