%% %% Manuscript for Quark Matter 2012 Proceedings %% ============================================ %% Author: %% Collaboration: %% Last updated: %% %% This is just a basic template. For more detailed options %% see http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/latex %% %% %% This is the class option for the final document \documentclass[final,1p,times]{elsarticle} %% Use the option review to obtain double line spacing %\documentclass[preprint,review,12pt]{elsarticle} %% Useful/needed packages \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsthm} \usepackage{lineno} %% Your personal definitions go here \newcommand{\pt}{$p_{T}$} \newcommand{\pT}{$p_{T}$} \journal{Nuclear Physics A} \begin{document} \def\Journal#1#2#3#4{{#1} {\bf #2}, #3 (#4)} \def\PLB{{Phys. Lett.} B} \def\PRL{{Phys. Rev. Lett.}} \def\PRC{{Phys. Rev.} C} \def\PRD{{Phys. Rev.} D} \def\NIMA{{Nucl. Instr. Meth.} A} \def\EPJ{{Eur. Phys. J.} C} \def\mpc#1{{\it \underline{#1}}} \begin{frontmatter} % Your Title - please insert \title{Measurement of $R_{\rm{AA}}$ and $v_{2}$ of electrons from heavy-flavour decays in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV with ALICE} %% Single author (and collaboration) - please insert %\author{Shingo Sakai (for the ALICE\fnref{col1} Collaboration)} %\fntext[col1] {A list of members of the EMPIRE Collaboration and acknowledgements can be found at the end of this issue.} \author{Shingo Sakai (for the ALICE Collaboration)} %\fntext[col1] {A list of members of the EMPIRE Collaboration and acknowledgements can be found at the end of this issue.} \address{Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California, U.S.A. 94720} %% Multiple authors %\author[auth2]{Marcus Junius Brutus} %\address[auth1]{Somewhere, Rome} %\address[auth2]{Somewhere else, Rome} \begin{abstract} We present measurements of the nuclear modification factor ($R_{\rm{AA}}$) and azimuthal anisotropy ($v_{2}$) of heavy-flavour decay electrons by the ALICE Collaboration, at central rapidity in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV. A strong suppression of heavy-flavour decay electron production at high $p_{\rm{T}}$ is observed in central Pb--Pb collisions, while non-zero $v_{2}$ is observed at low $p_{\rm{T}}$ in semi-central collisions. \end{abstract} \end{frontmatter} % do not change %% linenumbers are useful for reviewing process %\linenumbers \section{Introduction} High energy heavy ion collisions generate hot and dense, strongly interacting matter - the quark gluon-plasma (QGP). Measurement of heavy quarks (charm and beauty), arising from hard partonic interactions early in the evolution of the nuclear collision, are of special interest for studying the properties of the QGP. In particular, the energy loss $\Delta E$ in the QGP of an energetic parton (``jet quenching'') is expected to be influenced by the colour charge of the parton, as well as the ``dead cone'' effect for massive quarks, resulting in the expectation of a hierarchy in energy loss, $\Delta E_{\mathrm{g}} > \Delta E_{\mathrm{light-q}} > \Delta E_{\mathrm{heavy-q}}$ \cite{deadcone}\cite{model1}\cite{model2}\cite{model3}. Measurement of semi-leptonic decays of D and B hadrons generated in heavy ion collisons give experimental means to study this effect. In addition, the azimuthal anisotropy of heavy quark production observed in non-central heavy-ion collisions is sensitive to the transport properties of the medium, due to the connection between heavy quark diffusion coefficient D, which can be extracted from such measurements, and the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density ($\eta/s$)\cite{etas}. The anisotropy is quantified by the second Fourier coefficient $v_2$ of the particle transverse momentum spectra reconstructed differentially with respect to the reaction plane. In these proceedings we present measurements by ALICE of electrons from semi-leptonic decays of heavy quarks at mid-rapidity, in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV. We report the $p_{\rm{T}}$ dependence of the nuclear modification factor ($R_{\rm{AA}}$) in 0-10 \% most central collisions, and $v_{2}$ of heavy-flavour decay electrons in semi-central collisions (20-40\%). We conclude with comparison of the experimental results to several theoretical models. \section{Data analysis} %In ALICE experiment, there are several detectors to identify electron. The data were recorded by the ALICE detector \cite{ALICEdetector} during the 2010 and 2011 LHC runs with Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV. Triggering and event characterizations utilize the VZERO detector and Inner Tracking System (ITS). The VZERO detector is composed of two arrays of scintillator tiles covering the full azimuth in the pseudo-rapidity regions $2.8 < \eta < 5.1$ (VZERO-A) and $-3.7<\eta<-1.7$ (VZERO-C), and which contribute to triggering, event centrality measurement, and event plane determination. The Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) is the innermost part of the ITS and consists of two cylindrical layers of silicon pixel detectors located at radial positions of 3.9 and 7.6 cm from the beam line, covering the pseudo-rapidity ranges $|\eta| < 2.0$ and $|\eta| < 1.4$, respectively. In addition to the centrality triggered event sample (central 0-10\% of 17 $\times$ 10$^{6}$ events and 20-40\% of 8.5 $\times$ 10$^{6}$~events), a sample (central 0-10\% of 0.7 $\times$ 10$^{6}$~events and 20-40\% of 1.3 $\times$ 10$^{6}$~events) of events triggered by the Electro-Magnetic Calorimeter (EMCal) was used. The EMCal trigger requires an electromagnetic shower above threshold, with the shower defined by a sliding window of $4\times4$ EMCal cells (corresponding to 0.056 $\times$ 0.056 in $\varphi$ $\times$ $\eta$). The trigger threshold depended online on the integrated signal amplitude in the VZERO detector, which is proportional to the event centrality, and varied from 2 GeV for most peripheral events ($\sigma/\sigma_{\rm{geom}}\sim 90\%$) to 7 GeV for the most central ($\sim 5\%$) events. Electron candidates were selected from a set of primary tracks in the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) ($\Delta \phi = 2\pi$, $|\eta| < $ 0.9) and in the ITS, with at least one point measured in SPD, and with ionization energy loss ($dE/dx$) of the track within the TPC gas corresponding to the expectation for an electron. Additional hadron rejection utilized time-of-flight measured in the TOF detector ($\Delta \phi = 2\pi$, $|\eta| < $ 0.9) and energy deposited in EMCal ($\Delta \phi = 100^\circ$, $|\eta| < $ 0.7). Since the shower from an electron is fully contained and accurately measured by the EMCal, the ratio of the energy measured by the EMCal and the momentum measured by the TPC is with high probability close to unity for an electron, but not for a charged hadron. The measurement of electron yields in the interval $3-18$ GeV/$c$ utilized both the TPC and EMCal detectors. The $v_{2}$ measurement combined the low-$p_{\rm{T}}$ electrons ($>\sim1$~GeV/$c$) identified with TPC and TOF, with the high-$p_{\rm{T}}$ electrons ($2-13$~GeV/$c$) measured using the TPC and EMCal. There are three distinct sources of electrons contributing to the population of identified electron candidates: {\it heavy-flavour electrons} from the semi-leptonic decays of hadrons containing a charm or beauty quark; electrons which originate from leptonic decays of quarkonium ($\mathrm{J}/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$ mesons); and {\it photonic electrons}, originating mainly from photon decays of $\pi^{0}$ and $\eta$ mesons that convert in detector material. The yield of photonic electrons was measured by pairing electrons with oppositely charged partner tracks and requiring invariant mass of the $e^{+}e^{-}$ pair to be close to zero. The contribution from $\mathrm{J}/\psi$ decays was estimated using the measured $\mathrm{J}/\psi$ production cross section at $\sqrt{s}=7$~TeV in pp collisions and scaled by an assumed $R_{\rm{AA}}^{\mathrm{J}/\psi}=0.4$. The heavy-flavour electron yield was then determined by subtracting both the photonic electron yield and feed-down from the $\rm{J}/\psi$ decays from the inclusive primary electron yield. The nuclear modification factor for heavy-flavour electrons $R_{\rm AA}^{\rm{HF}}$ is calculated as: \begin{equation} R_{\rm AA}^{ \mathrm{HF}} = \frac{dN_{\rm AA}^{ \mathrm{HF}}/dp_{\rm{T}}}{\langle T_{\rm AA} \rangle \times d\sigma_{\mathrm{pp}}^{\mathrm{HF}}/dp_{\rm{T}}}, \end{equation} where $\langle T_{\rm AA} \rangle$ is the nuclear overlap function for Pb--Pb collisions, $dN_{\rm AA}/dp_{\rm{T}}$ is the differential yield in Pb--Pb collisions and $d\sigma_{\rm{pp}}/dp_{\rm{T}}$ is the differential invariant cross section in pp collisions. In the following, $d\sigma_{\rm{pp}}/dp_{\rm{T}}$ was obtained for $p_{\rm{T}}^{\rm{e}} < 8$ GeV/$c$ by extrapolating the measured cross-section at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV \cite{HFE7TeV} to 2.76 TeV according to FONLL \cite{scale}. For $p_{\rm{T}}^{\rm{e}} > 8$~GeV/$c$, the FONLL calculation for $\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ TeV was used directly. The heavy-flavour electron $v_{2_{ \mathrm{e}}}^{\rm HF}$ was obtained as: \begin{equation} v_{2_{\mathrm{e}}}^{\rm HF} = \frac{(1+R_{\rm NP})v_{2_{ \mathrm{e}}}-v_{2_{\mathrm{e}}}^{\gamma}}{R_{\rm NP}}, \end{equation} where $v_{2_{\mathrm{e}}}$ is the inclusive electron $v_{2}$ and $R_{\rm{NP}}$ is the ratio of the number of heavy-flavour decay electrons to photonic electrons ($N_{\mathrm{e}}^{\rm HF}/N_{\mathrm{e}}^{\gamma}$) \cite{hfev2}. The inclusive electron $v_{2}$ was measured with respect to the event plane, which was determined using the VZERO detectors. The photonic electron $v_{2}$ ($v_{2}^\gamma$) was calculated with a Monte Carlo generator that includes the constributions of $\pi^0$, $\eta$, and direct photons. The measured spectra and $v_2(p_{\rm{T}})$ of $\pi^\pm$, $\pi^0$, and $K^\pm$ were used as input, assuming $v_2^{\pi^\pm}=v_2^{\pi^0}$, $v_2^\eta = v_2^{K^\pm}$. We assume that $v_2=0$ for direct photons. At high $p_{\rm{T}}$, $R_{\rm NP}\simeq4$. TOF and TPC were used to measure $v_{2}$ in the interval 1.5 $< p_{\rm{T}} < $ 6 GeV/$c$, while the TPC and EMCal measure $v_{2}$ in the interval 2 $< p_{\rm{T}} < $ 13 GeV/$c$. The two measurements were combined to obtain the $v_{2}$ in 1.5 $< p_{\rm{T}} < $ 13 GeV/$c$. \section{Results} \begin{figure}[htbp] \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.8\textwidth]{2012-Aug-07-HFERaaFlow_compPHENIX.eps} \end{center} \caption{$R_{\rm AA}$ of heavy-flavour decay electrons in 0-10 \% central events (left) and azimuthal anisotropy ($v_{2}$) in 20-40 \% central events (right), in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}$ = 2.76 TeV, compared to measurements at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}}=0.2$~TeV in Au-Au collisions \cite{phenixhfe}.} \label{fig:hf1} \end{figure} The transverse momentum dependence of $R_{\rm{AA}}$ and $v_{2}$ of heavy-flavour decay electrons is shown in Fig \ref{fig:hf1}. We observe a strong suppression of the production ($R_{\rm{AA}} < $ 1) up to 18 GeV/$c$ in central collisions, and non-zero $v_{2}$ in 2 $