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Description
Heavy quarks, produced in hard-scattering processes in the very early stage of heavy-ion collisions, are efficient probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) properties through its full evolution. They subsequently decay into particles such as muons and electrons. In ALICE, at LHC energies, muons are detected by the forward muon spectrometer and the Muon Forward Tracker (MFT). Full simulations have been performed to analyze particles produced in the forward rapidity region -3.6 < η < -2.5 with p > 4 GeV/c in pp collisions and Pb-Pb collisions. The beauty contribution (from B mesons) to the muon yield needs to be separated from the charm (from D mesons) component for in-depth studies of the properties of QGP. In this poster, the comparison of various quantities such as the distance of closest approach (DCA) and the transverse momentum (p T) distributions of decay muons from B mesons, D mesons, kaons, and pions are presented.
| Theory / experiment | Experiment |
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| Group or collaboration name | ALICE Collaboration |
