Measurement of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays at midrapidity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √ s(NN)=5.02 TeV



Acharya, S, Adamova, D, Adhya, SP, Adler, A, Adolfsson, J, Aggarwal, MM, Rinella, G Aglieri, Agnello, M, Agrawal, N, Ahammed, Z
et al (show 1022 more authors) (2020) Measurement of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays at midrapidity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √ s(NN)=5.02 TeV Physics Letters B: Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics, 804. 135377-. ISSN 0370-2693, 1873-2445

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Abstract

The differential invariant yield as a function of transverse momentum (p<inf>T</inf>) of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays was measured at midrapidity in central (0–10%), semi-central (30–50%) and peripheral (60–80%) lead–lead (Pb–Pb) collisions at s<inf>NN</inf>=5.02 TeV in the p<inf>T</inf> intervals 0.5–26 GeV/c (0–10% and 30–50%) and 0.5–10 GeV/c (60–80%). The production cross section in proton–proton (pp) collisions at s=5.02 TeV was measured as well in 0.5<p<inf>T</inf><10 GeV/c and it lies close to the upper band of perturbative QCD calculation uncertainties up to p<inf>T</inf>=5 GeV/c and close to the mean value for larger p<inf>T</inf>. The modification of the electron yield with respect to what is expected for an incoherent superposition of nucleon–nucleon collisions is evaluated by measuring the nuclear modification factor R<inf>AA</inf>. The measurement of the R<inf>AA</inf> in different centrality classes allows in-medium energy loss of charm and beauty quarks to be investigated. The R<inf>AA</inf> shows a suppression with respect to unity at intermediate p<inf>T</inf>, which increases while moving towards more central collisions. Moreover, the measured R<inf>AA</inf> is sensitive to the modification of the parton distribution functions (PDF) in nuclei, like nuclear shadowing, which causes a suppression of the heavy-quark production at low p<inf>T</inf> in heavy-ion collisions at LHC.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics, 5107 Particle and High Energy Physics, 5110 Synchrotrons and Accelerators, 51 Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 26 Aug 2020 10:44
Last Modified: 23 May 2026 02:32
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135377
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3098779
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