Measurements of low-p(T) electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays at mid-rapidity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.A76 TeV

S. Acharya, F Acosta, D. Adamova, J Adolfsson, MM. Aggarwal, G.A. Rinella, A. Agnello, N. Agrawal, Z. Ahammed, S.U. Ahn, S. Aiola, A. Akindinov, M. Al-Turany, SN Alam, DSD Albuquerque, D. Aleksandrov, B Alessandro, Rafael A. Molina, Yusuf Ali, A. AliciA. Alkin, J. Alme, T. Alt, Ian Bearden, Ante Bilandzic, Christian Alexander Bourjau, Marek Chojnacki, Katarina Gajdosova, Jens Jørgen Gaardhøje, bsm989 bsm989, Christian Holm Christensen, Børge Svane Nielsen, Freja Thoresen, You Zhou, Lais Ozelin De Lima Pimentel

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Abstract

Transverse-momentum (pT) differential yields of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays have been measured in the most central (0–10%) and in semi-central (20–40%) Pb–Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV. The corresponding production cross section in pp collisions has been measured at the same energy with substantially reduced systematic uncertainties with respect to previously published results. The modification of the yield in Pb–Pb collisions with respect to the expectation from an incoherent superposition of nucleon-nucleon collisions is quantified at mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.8) in the pT interval 0.5–3 GeV/c via the nuclear modification factor, RAA. This paper extends the pT reach of the RAA measurement towards significantly lower values with respect to a previous publication. In Pb–Pb collisions the pT-differential measurements of yields at low pT are essential to investigate the scaling of heavy-flavour production with the number of binary nucleon-nucleon collisions. Heavy-quark hadronization, a collective expansion and even initial-state effects, such as the nuclear modification of the Parton Distribution Function, are also expected to have a significant effect on the measured distribution.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer061
TidsskriftThe Journal of High Energy Physics
Vol/bind2018
Udgave nummer10
Antal sider30
ISSN1126-6708
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 okt. 2018

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