Suppression of Υ (1S) at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √ s NN = 2.76 TeV .ALICE Collaboration a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c tWe report on the measurement of the inclusive Υ (1S) production in Pb-Pb collisions at √ s NN = 2.76 TeV carried out at forward rapidity (2.5 < y < 4) and down to zero transverse momentum using its μ + μ − decay channel with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A strong suppression of the inclusive Υ (1S) yield is observed with respect to pp collisions scaled by the number of independent nucleonnucleon collisions. The nuclear modification factor, for events in the 0-90% centrality range, amounts to 0.30 ± 0.05(stat) ± 0.04(syst). The observed Υ (1S) suppression tends to increase with the centrality of the collision and seems more pronounced than in corresponding mid-rapidity measurements. Our results are compared with model calculations, which are found to underestimate the measured suppression and fail to reproduce its rapidity dependence.(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Funded by SCOAP 3 .Υ states to be regenerated in the medium is much smaller due to the lower production cross section of bb pairs [29]. However, the feed-down from higher mass bottomonia (between 40% and 50%for Υ (1S) [30]) complicates the data interpretation. Furthermore, the suppression due to the QGP must be disentangled from that due to Cold Nuclear Matter (CNM) effects (such as nuclear modification of the parton distribution functions or break-up of the quarkonium state in CNM) which, as of now, are not accurately known neither at RHIC energies [24] nor in the forward rapidity regions probed at LHC. At RHIC, the inclusive Υ (1S + 2S + 3S) production has been measured in Au-Au collisions at mid-rapidity http://dx.