Rimoldi, Marco; Mullier, Geoffrey; Miucci, Antonio; Merlassino, Claudia; Haug, Sigve; Weber, Michael; Meloni, Federico; Beck, Hans Peter; Ereditato, Antonio (2018). Measurement of the suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of muons from heavy-flavor decays in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Physical review. C - nuclear physics, 98(4) American Institute of Physics 10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044905
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ATLAS measurements of the production of muons from heavy-flavor decays in √sNN = 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions and √s=2.76 TeV pp collisions at the LHC are presented. Integrated luminosities of 0.14 nb⁻¹ and 570 nb⁻¹ are used for the Pb+Pb and pp measurements, respectively, which are performed over the muon transverse momentum range 4 < pT < 14 GeV and for five Pb+Pb centrality intervals. Backgrounds arising from in-flight pion and kaon decays, hadronic showers, and misreconstructed muons are statistically removed using a template-fitting procedure. The heavy-flavor muon differential cross sections and per-event yields are measured in pp and Pb+Pb collisions, respectively. The nuclear modification factor RAA obtained from these is observed to be independent of pT, within uncertainties, and to be less than unity, which indicates suppressed production of heavy-flavor muons in Pb+Pb collisions. For the 10% most central Pb+Pb events, the measured RAA is approximately 0.35. The azimuthal modulation of the heavy-flavor muon yields is also measured andthe associated Fourier coefficients vn for n=2, 3, and 4 are given as a function of pT and centrality. They vary slowly with pT and show a systematic variation with centrality which is characteristic of other anisotropy measurements, such as that observed for inclusive hadrons. The measured RAA and vn values are also compared with theoretical calculations
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Haug, Sigve, Weber, Michele, Beck, Hans Peter |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
0556-2813 |
Publisher: |
American Institute of Physics |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
BORIS Import LHEP |
Date Deposited: |
25 Jun 2019 10:01 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:27 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044905 |
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Kollaboration - Es sind nur die Berner Autoren namentlich erwaehnt |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.129047 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/129047 |
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