Study of B meson production in pPb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV using exclusive hadronic decays

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The production cross sections of the B+, B0, and B0s mesons, and of their charge conjugates, are measured via exclusive hadronic decays in pPb collisions at the center-of-mass energy sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC.

• The data set used for this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 34.6 inverse nanobarns.
• The production cross sections are measured in the transverse momentum range between 10 and 60 GeV/c.
• No significant modification is observed compared to proton-proton perturbative QCD calculations scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions.