Measurement of electrons from beauty-hadron decays in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV

作者：Acharya, S.; Adamova, D.; Adler, A.; Rinella, G. Aglieri; Agnello, M.; Agrawal, N.; Ahammed, Z.; Ahmad, S.; Ahn, S. U.; Ahuja, I.; Akindinov, A.; Al-Turany, M.; Aleksandrov, D.; Alessandro, B.; Alfanda, H. M.; Alfaro Molina, R.; Ali, B.; Alici, A.; Alizadehvandchali, N.; Alkin, A.; Alme, J.; Alocco, G.; Alt, T.; Altsybeev, I.; Anaam, M. N.; Andrei, C.; Andronic, A.; Anguelov, V.; Antinori, F.; Antonioli, P.; Apadula, N.; Aphecetche, L.; Appelshaeuser, H.; Arata, C.; Arcelli, S.; Aresti, M.

来源：Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics, 2023, 108(3): 034906.

DOI：10.1103/PhysRevC.108.034906

• QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
• NON-PROMPT J/PSI
• PROTON-PROTON COLLISIONS
• HIGH TRANSVERSE-MOMENTUM
• HEAVY-FLAVOR
• ENERGY-LOSS
• CROSS-SECTIONS
• QCD
• ROOT-S=7
• MATTER

The production of electrons from beauty-hadron decays was measured at midrapidity in proton-proton (pp) and central Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon pair root sNN = 5.02 TeV, using the ALICE detector at the LHC. The cross section measured in pp collisions in the transverse momentum interval 2 < pT < 8 GeV/c was compared with models based on perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. The yield in the 10% most central Pb-Pb collisions, measured in the interval 2 < pT < 26 GeV/c, was used to compute the nuclear modification factor R-AA, extrapolating the pp reference cross section to pT larger than 8 GeV/c. The measured RAA shows significant suppression of the yield of electrons from beauty-hadron decays at high pT and does not show a significant dependence above 8 GeV/c within uncertainties. The results are de-scribed by several theoretical models based on different implementations of the interaction of heavy quarks with a quark-gluon plasma, which predict a smaller energy loss for beauty quarks compared to light and charm quarks.