Heavy flavor production in heavy ions with the CMS detector

We review recent results relating to beauty production in heavy-ion collisions, in both the closed and open heavy flavor sectors, from the CMS experiment at the LHC. The sequential suppression of the γ states in PbPb collisions is thought to be evidence of the dissociation of quarkonia bound states in deconfined matter. Data from pPb collisions demonstrate that while cold nuclear effects appear to be subdominant in minimum bias collisions, there exists a non-trivial dependence on collision multiplicity that remains to be understood. The suppression of high pT particles in heavy-ion collisions, relative to the expectation from pp collisions, is typically interpreted in terms of energy loss of hard scattered parton in the dense nuclear medium. The flavor dependence of the energy loss may be accessed via measurements of b hadrons and b-tagged jets. Measurement of B mesons, via non-prompt J/ψ, at relatively low pT indicate a smaller suppression factor than D meson or inclusive charged hadrons. Data on b jets at larger values of pT show no significant difference between the suppression factors of b jets and inclusive jets. In both cases a number of other potential effects need to be precisely understood before the flavor dependence of parton energy loss can be understood in detail.