Speaker
Description
Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are produced in the early stages of hadronic collisions via hard scattering processes and therefore are efficient probes to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma produced in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. Charged-particle multiplicity gives information on the global characteristics of the event and can be exploited to investigate the possible influence of the event hadronic activity on particle production. Heavy-quark production in pp and p—Pb collisions can have a substantial contribution from Multi-Parton Interactions (MPI), in which several interactions at the partonic level occur in a single collision. This implies a correlation between the particle production and the charged-particle multiplicity. This effect can be explored by studying the correlations between heavy-flavour production and the charged-particle multiplicity. Furthermore, the study of the multiplicity dependence of heavy-flavour production in p—Pb collisions might provide important information regarding Cold Nuclear Matter (CNM).
In this poster, we will present results of the production of heavy-flavour hadron decay muons as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 8 TeV and in p—Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 8.16 TeV at both forward and backward rapidities. The results will be compared with theoretical predictions.
| Track | Heavy Flavour |
|---|---|
| Collaboration name | ALICE |
