Inclusive and multiplicity dependent production of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp and p-Pb collisions
Collaboration
46 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 08 (2023) 006
- Published: Aug 2, 2023
e-Print:
- 2303.13349 [nucl-ex]
Report number:
- CERN-EP-2023-041
Experiments:
- CERN-LHC-ALICE,
- CERN-LHC-ALICE
Citations per year
Abstract: (Springer)
Measurements of the production of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp collisions at = 13 TeV at midrapidity with the ALICE detector are presented down to a transverse momentum (p) of 0.2 GeV/c and up to p = 35 GeV/c, which is the largest momentum range probed for inclusive electron measurements in ALICE. In p-Pb collisions, the production cross section and the nuclear modification factor of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays are measured in the p range 0.5 < p< 26 GeV/c at = 8.16 TeV. The nuclear modification factor is found to be consistent with unity within the statistical and systematic uncertainties. In both collision systems, first measurements of the yields of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in different multiplicity intervals normalised to the multiplicity-integrated yield (self-normalised yield) at midrapidity are reported as a function of the self-normalised charged-particle multiplicity estimated at midrapidity. The self-normalised yields in pp and p-Pb collisions grow faster than linear with the self-normalised multiplicity. A strong p dependence is observed in pp collisions, where the yield of high-p electrons increases faster as a function of multiplicity than the one of low-p electrons. The measurement in p-Pb collisions shows no p dependence within uncertainties. The self-normalised yields in pp and p-Pb collisions are compared with measurements of other heavy-flavour, light-flavour, and strange particles, and with Monte Carlo simulations.[graphic not available: see fulltext]Note:
- 46 pages, 17 captioned figures, 8 tables, authors from page 41, published version, figures at http://alice-publications.web.cern.ch/node/9209
- Hadron-Hadron Scattering
- hadron: decay
- electron: production
- multiplicity: difference
- numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
- multiplicity: dependence
- electron: yield
- p p: scattering
- charged particle: multiplicity
- heavy quark
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