https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612605004
Performance of the ALICE secondary vertex b-tagging algorithm
1 FNSPE, Czech Technical University in Prague
2 SINP MSU, Russia
a e-mail: Gyulnara.Eyyubova@fjfi.cvut.cz
b e-mail: Lukas.Kramarik@cern.ch
Published online: 4 November 2016
The identification of jets originating from beauty quarks in heavy-ion collisions is important to study the properties of the hot and dense matter produced in such collisions. A variety of algorithms for b-jet tagging was elaborated at the LHC experments. They rely on the properties of B hadrons, i.e. their long lifetime, large mass and large multiplicity of decay products. In this work, the b-tagging algorithm based on displaced secondary-vertex topologies is described. We present Monte Carlo based performance studies of the algorithm for charged jets reconstructed with the ALICE tracking system in p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. The tagging efficiency, rejection rate and the correction of the smearing effects of non-ideal detector response are presented.
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