Beauty and beauty-jet measurement via displaced vertices with ALICE in p+p collisions at √(s) = 7 TeV
Creators
- 1. Universitaet Heidelberg Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg (Germany)
Description
The measurement of single electrons from heavy flavor hadron decays at RHIC indicates strong coupling of heavy quarks to the medium produced in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The LHC extends greatly the kinematic range to high transverse momentum which enables new tests of heavy quark jet dynamics. The beauty hadrons and jets containing beauty hadrons have distinctive properties, which allow for their clear identification. We introduce methods to preferentially select electrons from beauty hadron decays by minimum distance of closest approach cuts and by reconstructing secondary vertices. The first analysis applying these techniques in the ALICE experiment for p+p collisions at √(s)=7 TeV is presented. The analysis status of the data from Pb+Pb collisions, which will allow us to understand beauty quark energy loss in the medium, is also reported.
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Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
- Journal Issue
- Muenster 2011 issue
- Series
- Also available as printed version: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft v. 46(2)
- Journal Page Range
- [1 p.]
- ISSN
- 0420-0195
- CODEN
- VDPEAZ
Conference
- Title
- DPG Spring meeting of the DPG divisions educational physics and hadronic and nuclear physics
- Dates
- 21-25 Mar 2011
- Place
- Muenster (Germany)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 43117295
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BEAUTY PARTICLES; CERN LHC; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRON DETECTION; HADRONS; JET MODEL; LEAD 208 REACTIONS; LEAD 208 TARGET; MULTIPLE PRODUCTION; PARTICLE DISCRIMINATION; PARTICLE TRACKS; PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; TEV RANGE 01-10; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS; CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTION; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; DECAY; DETECTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS; HEAVY ION REACTIONS; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE IDENTIFICATION; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PRODUCTION; PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS; RADIATION DETECTION; STORAGE RINGS; SYNCHROTRONS; TARGETS; TEV RANGE
Optional Information
- Notes
- Session: HK 22.9 Di 18:45; No further information available
- Collaborations
- ALICE-Collaboration