Speaker
Xiaoming Zhang
(Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont-Ferrand)
Description
Heavy-quark production is one of the probes for the investigation of the properties
of the high-density medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. This investigation requires also the study of proton-proton collisions. Besides providing the necessary baseline for nucleus-nucleus collisions, proton-proton collisions are of great interest, also in their own right, since they allow to test perturbative QCD at unprecedented low Bjorken-x values. In this contribution, we measure the heavy-flavour production by detecting single muons from semi-leptonic decays.
After a description of the ALICE muon spectrometer, we will present the results on the
production of single muons from heavy flavour decays at forward rapidity (2.5 < y < 4) in pp collisions at Heavy-quark production is one of the probes for the investigation of the properties
of the high-density medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. This investigation requires
also the study of proton-proton collisions. Besides providing the necessary baseline for
nucleus-nucleus collisions, proton-proton collisions are of great interest, also in their own
right, since they allow to test perturbative QCD at unprecedented low Bjorken-x values.
In this contribution, we measure the heavy-
avour production by detecting single
muons from semi-leptonic decays.
After a description of the ALICE muon spectrometer, we will present the results on the
production of single muons from heavy
avour decays at forward rapidity (2:5 < y < 4)
in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at Heavy-quark production is one of the probes for the investigation of the properties
of the high-density medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. This investigation requires
also the study of proton-proton collisions. Besides providing the necessary baseline for
nucleus-nucleus collisions, proton-proton collisions are of great interest, also in their own
right, since they allow to test perturbative QCD at unprecedented low Bjorken-x values.
In this contribution, we measure the heavy-
avour production by detecting single
muons from semi-leptonic decays.
After a description of the ALICE muon spectrometer, we will present the results on the
production of single muons from heavy
avour decays at forward rapidity (2:5 < y < 4)
in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV. In particular,
we will show the pt-dierential production cross section in pp collisions and compare it to perturbative QCD predictions, and the nuclear modication factors in Pb-Pb collisions. RAA with respect to a pp reference at √s = 2.76 TeV and RCP in central with respect to peripheral collisions.
Primary author
Xiaoming Zhang
(Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont-Ferrand)
