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Measurement of Azimuthal Anisotropy of Muons from Charm and Bottom Hadrons in pp Collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector: Physical Review Letters

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Article number082301
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>26/02/2020
<mark>Journal</mark>Phys Rev Lett
Issue number8
Volume124
Number of pages20
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The elliptic flow of muons from the decay of charm and bottom hadrons is measured in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 150 pb-1 recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The muons from heavy-flavor decay are separated from light-hadron decay muons using momentum imbalance between the tracking and muon spectrometers. The heavy-flavor decay muons are further separated into those from charm decay and those from bottom decay using the distance-of-closest-approach to the collision vertex. The measurement is performed for muons in the transverse momentum range 4-7 GeV and pseudorapidity range |η| <2.4. A significant nonzero elliptic anisotropy coefficient v2 is observed for muons from charm decays, while the v2 value for muons from bottom decays is consistent with zero within uncertainties.