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Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

ContributorsATLAS Collaboration
Published inPhysics letters. B, vol. 807, 135595
Publication date2020
First online date2020-08-10
Abstract

Azimuthal anisotropies of muons from charm and bottom hadron decays are measured in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2018 with integrated luminosities of 0.5nb−1 and 1.4nb−1, respectively. The kinematic selection for heavy-flavor muons requires transverse momentum 4<pT<30GeV and pseudorapidity |η|<2.0. The dominant sources of muons in this pT range are semi-leptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons. These heavy-flavor muons are separated from light-hadron decay muons and punch-through hadrons using the momentum imbalance between the measurements in the tracking detector and in the muon spectrometers. Azimuthal anisotropies, quantified by flow coefficients, are measured via the event-plane method for inclusive heavy-flavor muons as a function of the muon pT and in intervals of Pb+Pb collision centrality. Heavy-flavor muons are separated into contributions from charm and bottom hadron decays using the muon transverse impact parameter with respect to the event primary vertex. Non-zero elliptic (v2) and triangular (v3) flow coefficients are extracted for charm and bottom muons, with the charm muon coefficients larger than those for bottom muons for all Pb+Pb collision centralities. The results indicate substantial modification to the charm and bottom quark angular distributions through interactions in the quark-gluon plasma produced in these Pb+Pb collisions, with smaller modifications for the bottom quarks as expected theoretically due to their larger mass.

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Keywords
  • Angular distribution: anisotropy
  • Hadron: decay
  • Muon: spectrometer
  • Quark gluon: plasma
  • Vertex: primary
  • Heavy quark
  • Transverse momentum
  • Impact parameter
  • CERN LHC Coll
  • Elliptic flow
  • Triangular flow
  • Kinematics
  • ATLAS
  • Experimental results
  • 5020 GeV-cms/nucleon
Citation (ISO format)
ATLAS Collaboration. Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at <i>√s</i><sub>NN</sub>=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Physics letters. B, 2020, vol. 807, p. 135595. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135595
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