LHCb CollaborationAdeva Andany, BernardoÁlvarez Cartelle, PaulaDosil Suárez, ÁlvaroFernández Albor, Víctor ManuelGallas Torreira, Abraham AntonioHernando Morata, José ÁngelPazos Álvarez, AntonioPérez Trigo, EliseoPlo Casasus, MáximoRodríguez Pérez, PabloRomero Vidal, AntonioSaborido Silva, Juan JoséSanmartín Sedes, BraisSantamarina Ríos, CibránSeco Miguélez, Marcos AntonioVázquez Regueiro, PabloVázquez Sierra, Carlos2020-04-302020-04-302014Aaij, R., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M. et al. Study of J/ψ production and cold nuclear matter effects in pPb collisions at √sNN = 5 TeV. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 72 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2014)0721029-8479http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21932The production of J/ψ mesons with rapidity 1.5 < y < 4.0 or −5.0 < y < −2.5 and transverse momentum p T < 14 GeV/c is studied with the LHCb detector in proton-lead collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy √sNN = 5TeV. The J/ψ mesons are reconstructed using the dimuon decay mode. The analysis is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of about 1.6 nb−1. For the first time the nuclear modification factor and forward-backward production ratio are determined separately for prompt J/ψ mesons and J/ψ from b-hadron decays. Clear suppression of prompt J/ψ production with respect to proton-proton collisions at large rapidity is observed, while the production of J/ψ from b-hadron decays is less suppressed. These results show good agreement with available theoretical predictions. The measurement shows that cold nuclear matter effects are important for interpretations of the related quark-gluon plasma signatures in heavy-ion collisions.eng© CERN, for the benefit of the LHCb Collaboration. Article funded by SCOAP3. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Relativistic heavy ion physicsQuarkoniumHeavy quark productionHeavy IonsParticle and resonance productionjournal article10.1007/JHEP02(2014)072open access