Production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at high transverse momentum in Pb–Pb collisions atsNN=5.02and 2.76 TeV

Autor: Jochen Klein, Trine Spedstad Tveter, Ivan Kisel, Paolo Giubellino, Philippe Crochet, Manuel Colocci, Auro Prasad Mohanty, Jeremy John Wilkinson, Pablo Fierro Rojas, E. López Torres, A. Di Mauro, Agneta Oskarsson, Andrey Zarochentsev, Lucrezia Camilla Migliorin, A. V. Kazantsev, Peter Braun-Munzinger, Sanjeev Singh Sambyal, A. Matyja, Janusz Oleniacz, Valeriy Pozdniakov, C. Hadjidakis, L. Nellen, Jonatan Adolfsson, Y. Berdnikov, Ana Vargas, Ashik Ikbal Sheikh, Gian Michele Innocenti, Kunal Garg, Hadi Hassan, Lukas Kreis, M. Masera, J. W. Harris, Seyed Farid Taghavi, Christos Pliatskas Stylianidis, Vytautas Vislavicius, Maximiliano Puccio, Silvia Masciocchi, Raimond Snellings, Håvard Helstrup, Marco Giacalone, A. Kondratyev, E. A. R. Casula, Ophelie Bugnon, Kenta Shigaki, Peter Chochula, S. K. Ghosh, Ralf Keidel, Sanghoon Lim, Klaus Johannes Reygers, Dominik Voscek, A. M. Gago, Y. F. Ryabov, Svetlana Belokurova, Partha Pratim Bhaduri, Christophe Pierre Suire, Mukesh Sharma, C. Klein-Bösing, Stephan Friedrich Stiefelmaier, A. S. Nyanin, Sergey Shirinkin, S. Vergara Limón, Giulio Eulisse, Y. J. Kwon, Alexander Bolozdynya, Igor Morozov, Dmitry Blau, Peter Levai, Martin Vala, Nataliya Topilskaya, Antonio Uras, Elisa Meninno, H. Pereira Da Costa, Kilian Eberhard Schwarz, Vladimir Belyaev, J. T. Blair, Michael Jung, Rafael Peretti Pezzi, H. Borel, Neelima Agrawal, Tariq Mahmoud, Sylvain Chapeland, M. Weber, Arnon Songmoolnak, Saikat Biswas, Gergely Gabor Barnafoldi, Archana Sharma, Rishat Sultanov, Andrea Alici, Dai-Mei Zhou, M. Keil, Cristian Andrei, K. Schweda, S. Sadovsky, Christopher Hills, Dushmanta Sahu, Venelin Anguelov, Domenico Colella, Vladimir Samsonov, Christine Nattrass, D. Varga, Tatiana Lazareva, Sibaliso Mhlanga, Christian Holm Christensen, Qasim Waheed Malik, Alexandru Bercuci, Stefano Piano, Michael Rudolf Ciupek, Sourav Kundu, Y. Sekiguchi, Inayat Rasool Bhat, G. Tejeda Muñoz, Sumit Kumar Saha, Bharati Naik, Victor Jose Gaston Feuillard, A. Zichichi, A. Hornung, Federico Cindolo, F. Bock, M. Mohisin Khan, Borge Svane Nielsen, Rinaldo Rui, Rosario Nania, Thomas Klemenz, Y. Pestov, Vladimir Zherebchevskii, Igor Pshenichnov, Ran Xu, Johanna Stachel, David Michael Rohr, Artem Shangaraev, Hermann Franz Degenhardt, Raul Arteche Diaz, Martin Andreas Volkl, M. S. Islam, Pascal Dillenseger, M. Fusco Girard, Chiara Zampolli, Sara Vallero, C. Ceballos Sanchez, Alexander Akindinov, Germano Bonomi, Sergey Evdokimov, I. Das, Felix Reidt, Kirill Lapidus, V. Chibante Barroso, Antoine Xavier Lardeux, Sarita Sahoo, Giuseppe Mandaglio, Raghunath Sahoo, Peter Kalinak, Joonil Lee, A. A. Capon, Sergey Gorbunov, Aleksey M. Tikhonov, M. Bombara, Neelkamal Mallick, Marianna Mazzilli, Christoph Blume, Uzma Tabassam, Adriana Telesca, Patrick John Steffanic, Krzysztof Redlich, Oleg Karavichev, S. De Pasquale, Freja Thoresen, Philippe Pillot, Cvetan Valeriev Cheshkov, Radiy Ilkaev, J. L. 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Peresunko, Chiara Pinto, Filippo Costa, Suharyo Sumowidagdo, Gualtiero Volpe, Vladimir Nikulin, Boris Hippolyte, Purushottam Chakraborty, J. Porter
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Physics Letters B. 820:136558
ISSN: 0370-2693
Popis: Measurements of the production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in Pb–Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 and 2.76 TeV using the ALICE detector at the LHC are reported. The nuclear modification factor R AA at s NN = 5.02 TeV is measured at forward rapidity ( 2.5 y 4 ) as a function of transverse momentum p T in central, semi-central, and peripheral collisions over a wide p T interval, 3 p T 20 GeV/c, in which muons from beauty-hadron decays are expected to take over from charm as the dominant source at high p T ( p T > 7 GeV/c). The R AA shows an increase of the suppression of the yields of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays with increasing centrality. A suppression by a factor of about three is observed in the 10% most central collisions. The R AA at s NN = 5.02 TeV is similar to that at s NN = 2.76 TeV. The precise R AA measurements have the potential to distinguish between model predictions implementing different mechanisms of parton energy loss in the high-density medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. They place important constraints for the understanding of the heavy-quark interaction with the hot and dense QCD medium.
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