Heavy-flavour production in Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC, measured with the ALICE detector

2011/06/30 by A. Dainese, Andrea Dainese · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Alice (programming language) #Detector #Flavour #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Meson #Muon #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Proton #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Rapidity #nucl-ex

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0954-3899/38/12/124032

8 pages, 5 figures, plenary talk at Quark Matter 2011, Annecy, France

arxiv created 2011/07/25 · openalex publication_date 2011/11/10 · arxiv updated 2019/08/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

We present the first results from the ALICE experiment on the nuclear modification factors for heavy-flavour hadron production in Pb–Pb collisions at TeV. Using proton–proton and lead–lead collision samples at TeV and TeV, respectively, the nuclear modification factors R AA ( p t ) were measured for D mesons at central rapidity (via displaced decay vertex reconstruction), and for electrons and muons, at central and forward rapidity, respectively.

Citations

• Reference heavy flavour cross sections in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 TeV, using a pQCD-driven sqrt(s)-scaling of ALICE measurements at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
• Measurement of Prompt Charm Meson Production Cross Sections inpp¯Collisions ats=1.96 TeV
• Reconciling Open-Charm Production at the Fermilab Tevatron with QCD

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