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Measurement of the suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of muons from heavy-flavor decays in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
| dc.contributor.author | ATLAS collaboration (2910 authors) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aguilar Saavedra, Juan Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Amor Dos Santos, Susana Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Araque Espinosa, Juan Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Castro, Nuno Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Conde Muino, Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Da Cunha Sargedas De Sousa, Mario Jose | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dias DO Vale, Tiago | |
| dc.contributor.author | Faisca Rodrigues Pereira, Rui Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fiolhais, Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Galhardo, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gomes, Agostinho | |
| dc.contributor.author | Goncalo, Ricardo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jorge, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | Machado Miguens, Joana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maio, Amelia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Maneira, Jose | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oleiro Seabra, Luis Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Onofre, Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Costa Batalha Pedro, Rute | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pereira Peixoto, Ana Paula | |
| dc.contributor.author | Santos, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saraiva, Joao | |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Jose Manuel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tavares Delgado, Ademar | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veloso, Filipe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wolters, Helmut | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-05T16:21:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-05T16:21:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-10-22 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-02-05T16:21:28Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 and the 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. | |
| dc.description.version | Peer Reviewed | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev. C98 (2018) 044905 Phys. Rev. C 98, 044905 (2018); DOI 10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044905 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044905 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/27634 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.title | Measurement of the suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of muons from heavy-flavor decays in Pb+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 2.76$ TeV with the ATLAS detector | |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt |
| rcaap.type | article |
