TY - JOUR
T1 - Elliptic flow of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76TeV
AU - Adam, J.
AU - Adamova, D.
AU - Aggarwal, M.M.
AU - Aglieri Rinella, G.
AU - Agnello, Maria
AU - Agrawal, N.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - U. Ahn, S.
AU - Aiola, S.
AU - Akindinov, A.
AU - Alam, S.
AU - Alessandro, B.
AU - Alici, A.
AU - Bearden, Ian
AU - Bøggild, Hans
AU - Christensen, Christian Holm
AU - Gulbrandsen, Kristjan Herlache
AU - Gaardhøje, Jens Jørgen
AU - Dalsgaard, Hans Hjersing
AU - Nielsen, Børge Svane
AU - Hansen, Alexander Colliander
AU - Bilandzic, Ante
AU - Chojnacki, Marek
AU - Zaccolo, Valentina
AU - Zhou, You
AU - Bourjau, Christian Alexander
PY - 2016/2/10
Y1 - 2016/2/10
N2 - The elliptic flow, v2, of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity (2.5NN=2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The scalar product, two- and four-particle Q cumulants and Lee–Yang zeros methods are used. The dependence of the v2 of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays on the collision centrality, in the range 0–40%, and on transverse momentum, pT, is studied in the interval 3T<10 GeV/c. A positive v2 is observed with the scalar product and two-particle Q cumulants in semi-central collisions (10–20% and 20–40% centrality classes) for the pT interval from 3 to about 5 GeV/c with a significance larger than 3σ based on the combination of statistical and systematic uncertainties. The v2 magnitude tends to decrease towards more central collisions and with increasing pT. It becomes compatible with zero in the interval 6T<10 GeV/c. The results are compared to models describing the interaction of heavy quarks and open heavy-flavour hadrons with the high-density medium formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
AB - The elliptic flow, v2, of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity (2.5NN=2.76 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The scalar product, two- and four-particle Q cumulants and Lee–Yang zeros methods are used. The dependence of the v2 of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays on the collision centrality, in the range 0–40%, and on transverse momentum, pT, is studied in the interval 3T<10 GeV/c. A positive v2 is observed with the scalar product and two-particle Q cumulants in semi-central collisions (10–20% and 20–40% centrality classes) for the pT interval from 3 to about 5 GeV/c with a significance larger than 3σ based on the combination of statistical and systematic uncertainties. The v2 magnitude tends to decrease towards more central collisions and with increasing pT. It becomes compatible with zero in the interval 6T<10 GeV/c. The results are compared to models describing the interaction of heavy quarks and open heavy-flavour hadrons with the high-density medium formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.11.059
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.11.059
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 753
SP - 41
EP - 56
JO - Physics Letters B
JF - Physics Letters B
ER -