CMS collaboration (2274 authors)Hollar, JonathanAlmeida, NunoBargassa, PedrameDavid Tinoco Mendes, AndreFaccioli, PietroFerreira Parracho, Pedro GuilhermeGallinaro, MicheleMusella, PasqualeNayak, ArunaPela, JoaoRibeiro, Pedro QuinazSeixas, JoaoVarela, JoaoVischia, PietroLloret Iglesias, LaraRodrigues Antunes, JoaoSilva, PedroLeonardo, Nuno2019-02-032019-02-032012-03-29http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-1945-xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/26098The transverse momentum spectra of charged particles have been measured in pp and PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. In the transverse momentum range pt = 5-10 GeV/c, the charged particle yield in the most central PbPb collisions is suppressed by up to a factor of 5 compared to the pp yield scaled by the number of incoherent nucleon-nucleon collisions. At higher pt, this suppression is significantly reduced, approaching roughly a factor of 2 for particles with pt in the range pt=40-100 GeV/c.engjournal article2019-02-03