Measurements of heavy-flavour decay leptons with ALICE

Shingo Sakai

doi:10.1051/epjconf/20159504058

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EPJ Web of Conferences 95, 04058 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159504058

Measurements of heavy-flavour decay leptons with ALICE

Shingo Sakai^a on behalf of the ALICE Collaboration

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - LNF via E.Fermi, 40 - 00044 Frascati (Rome) - Italy

^a e-mail: Shingo.Sakai@lnf.infn.it

Published online: 29 May 2015

Abstract

We present measurements of electrons and muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at central and forward rapidity performed by the ALICE Collaboration in p–Pb (√s_NN = 5.02 TeV) and Pb–Pb collisions (√s_NN = 2.76 TeV). Electrons are reconstructed using several detectors of the ALICE central barrel. Muons are reconstructed using the muon spectrometer at forward rapidity (2.5 < y < 4). The nuclear modification factors in Pb–Pb (R_AA) and in p–Pb (R_pPb) collisions, and the azimuthal anisotropy (v₂) in Pb– Pb collisions will be discussed. Theoretical predictions are compared with the data. In addition, the measurement of the azimuthal correlation between electrons from heavyflavour hadron decays and charged hadrons in p–Pb collisions will be shown.

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