Volume 485 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2025) - T04 Recent developments heavy ion physics, both experimental and theoretical aspects
Charmonium production from small to large systems at LHCb
L. Carcedo Salgado*  on behalf of the LHCb collaboration
*: corresponding author
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Pre-published on: January 09, 2026
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Abstract
Quarkonium production is a powerful probe of heavy-quark interactions with nuclear matter, and one of the proposed observables for this purpose is the ψ(2S)-to-J/ψ cross-section ratio. LHCb has recently measured this ratio in Run 2 data as a function of multiplicity in pp and pPb collisions, and as a function of centrality in PbPb collisions. Results in pp and forward pPb show a multiplicity dependence consistent with co-movers, while backward Pbp is flat. The cross-section ratio in PbPb is in agreement with previous results and best described by the TAMU transport model. With its Run 3 upgrades, including the SMOG2 fixed-target system, LHCb can now perform higher-precision PbPb studies, explore new collision systems, and thereby improve our understanding of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.485.0193
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