TY - JOUR
T1 - 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
AU - Acharya, S.
AU - Acosta, F
AU - Adamova, D.
AU - Adolfsson, J
AU - Aggarwal, MM.
AU - Rinella, G.A.
AU - Agnello, A.
AU - Agrawal, N.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Ahn, S.U.
AU - Aiola, S.
AU - Akindinov, A.
AU - Al-Turany, M.
AU - Alam, SN
AU - Albuquerque, DSD
AU - Aleksandrov, D.
AU - Alessandro, B
AU - Molina, Rafael A.
AU - Ali, Yusuf
AU - Alici, A.
AU - Alkin, A.
AU - Alme, J.
AU - Alt, T.
AU - Bearden, Ian
AU - Bilandzic, Ante
AU - Bourjau, Christian Alexander
AU - Chojnacki, Marek
AU - Gajdosova, Katarina
AU - Gaardhøje, Jens Jørgen
AU - bsm989, bsm989
AU - Christensen, Christian Holm
AU - Nielsen, Børge Svane
AU - Thoresen, Freja
AU - Zhou, You
AU - Ozelin De Lima Pimentel, Lais
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP10(2018)061
DO - 10.1007/JHEP10(2018)061
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2018
JO - The Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - The Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 10
M1 - 061
ER -