Nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in Pb–Pb collisions at √(s_NN)=2.76 TeV

Results from ALICE on the measurement of the nuclear modification factor, R_AA, and elliptic flow, v₂, of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity in Pb–Pb collisions at √(s_NN)=2.76 TeV are reported. A strong suppression of the production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays is observed at high transverse momentum, p_T, in the most central collisions compared to the binary-scaled expectation from pp collisions at the same energy, while a positive elliptic flow is observed at intermediate p_T in semi-central collisions. Comparisons with model predictions are presented