Heavy Flavour decay muon production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at √(s)= 7 TeV and in Pb-Pb collisions at √s_NN=2.76 TeV with the ALICE experiment

2012/12/30 by L. Manceau, Manceau, Loïc
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1212.6731

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Abstract

The production of muons from heavy flavour decays is measured at forward rapidity (2.5 < y < 4) with the muon spectrometer of the ALICE experiment at the LHC. In pp collisions at √(s) = 7 TeV, the measurement of the transverse momentum and rapidity differential production cross section of muons from heavy flavour decays is carried out from a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of Lint = 16.5 nb^-1 and results are compared to predictions based on perturbative QCD calculations. In Pb-Pb collisions at √s_NN= 2.76 TeV, the analysis of a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of Lint = 2.48 \mub^-1 provides a measurement of the ratio of inclusive muon yield in central to peripheral collisions (RCP) as a function of the collision centrality.

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