Khachatryan, V.Sirunyan, A. M.Tumasyan, A.Adam, W.Asilar, E.Bergauer, T.The CMS Collaboration2025-03-072025-03-0720160370-26931873-2445https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.010https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12507/3021We present a measurement of b jet transverse momentum (p(T)) spectra in proton-lead (pPb) collisions using a dataset corresponding to about 35nb(-1) collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. Jets from b quark fragmentation are found by exploiting the long lifetime of hadrons containing a b quark through tagging methods using distributions of the secondary vertex mass and displacement. Extracted cross sections for b jets are scaled by the effective number of nucleon-nucleon collisions and are compared to a reference obtained from PYTHIA simulations of pp collisions. The PYTHIA-based estimate of the nuclear modification factor is found to be 1.22 +/- 0.15 (stat + syst pPb) +/- 0.27 (syst PYTHIA) averaged over all jets with p(T) between 55 and 400 GeV/c and with |eta(lab)| < 2. We also compare this result to predictions from models using perturbative calculations in quantum chromodynamics. (C) 2016 CERN for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration. Published by Elsevier B.V.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCMSPhysicsHeavy ionsb-taggingArticle7545980WOS:0003696010000112-s2.0-8504092256710.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.010Q1Q1