Nuclear modification factor of light neutral-meson spectra up to high transverse momentum in p–Pb collisions at <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si1.svg"><mml:msqrt><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>s</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">NN</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:msqrt><mml:mo linebreak="goodbreak" linebreakstyle="after">=</mml:mo><mml:mn>8.16</mml:mn></mml:math> TeV

Neutral pion ($\pi^{0}$) and $\eta$ meson production cross sections were measured up to unprecedentedly high transverse momenta ($p_{\rm T}$) in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 8.16 TeV. The mesons reconstructed via their two-photon decay channel the rapidity interval $-1.3< y <0.3$ ranges of $0.410$ leaving essentially no room final state energy loss. new data provide strong constraints parton distribution fragmentation functions over a broad kinematic range compared model predictions as well previous results 5.02