Inclusive heavy-flavour production at central and forward rapidity in Xe-Xe collisions at √sNN=5.44 TeV
The first measurements of the production of muons and electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in Xe-Xe collisions at sNN=5.44 TeV, using the ALICE detector at the LHC, are reported. The measurement of the nuclear modification factor RAA is performed as a function of transverse momentum pT in seve...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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8 June 2021
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Physics letters
Year: 2021, Jahrgang: 819, Pages: 1-16 |
| ISSN: | 1873-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136437 |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136437 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269321003774 |
| Verfasserangaben: | ALICE Collaboration |
| Zusammenfassung: | The first measurements of the production of muons and electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in Xe-Xe collisions at sNN=5.44 TeV, using the ALICE detector at the LHC, are reported. The measurement of the nuclear modification factor RAA is performed as a function of transverse momentum pT in several centrality classes at forward rapidity (2.5<y<4) and midrapidity (|y|<0.8) for muons and electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays, respectively. A suppression by a factor up to about 2.5 compared to the binary-scaled pp reference is observed in central collisions at both central and forward rapidities. The RAA of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays is compared to previous measurements in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV. When the nuclear modification factors are compared in the centrality classes 0-10% for Xe-Xe collisions and 10-20% for Pb-Pb collisions, which have similar charged-particle multiplicity density, a similar suppression, with RAA∼0.4 in the pT interval 4<pT<8 GeV/c, is observed. The comparison of the measured RAA values in the two collision systems brings new insights on the properties of the quark-gluon plasma by investigating the system-size and geometry dependence of medium-induced parton energy loss. The results of muons and electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays provide new constraints to model calculations. |
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| Beschreibung: | Im Titel ist "NN" nach s tiefgestellt, der ganze Ausdruck "s NN" steht unter dem Wurzelsymbol Gesehen am 23.09.2021 |
| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1873-2445 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136437 |