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Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

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Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. / Collaboration, ATLAS; Barton, A.E.; Bertram, I.A. et al.
In: Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys, Vol. 807, 135595, 10.08.2020.

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Collaboration, ATLAS, Barton, AE, Bertram, IA, Borissov, G, Bouhova-Thacker, EV, Fox, H, Henderson, RCW, Jones, RWL, Kartvelishvili, V, Long, RE, Love, PA, Muenstermann, D, Parker, AJ, Sanderswood, I, Smizanska, M, Tee, AS, Walder, J, Wharton, AM, Whitmore, BW & Yexley, M 2020, 'Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector', Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys, vol. 807, 135595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135595

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Collaboration, ATLAS., Barton, A. E., Bertram, I. A., Borissov, G., Bouhova-Thacker, E. V., Fox, H., Henderson, R. C. W., Jones, R. W. L., Kartvelishvili, V., Long, R. E., Love, P. A., Muenstermann, D., Parker, A. J., Sanderswood, I., Smizanska, M., Tee, A. S., Walder, J., Wharton, A. M., Whitmore, B. W., & Yexley, M. (2020). Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys, 807, Article 135595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135595

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Collaboration ATLAS, Barton AE, Bertram IA, Borissov G, Bouhova-Thacker EV, Fox H et al. Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys. 2020 Aug 10;807:135595. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135595

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Collaboration, ATLAS ; Barton, A.E. ; Bertram, I.A. et al. / Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector. In: Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys. 2020 ; Vol. 807.

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title = "Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector",
abstract = "Azimuthal anisotropies of muons from charm and bottom hadron decays are measured in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2018 with integrated luminosities of  0.5 nb-1 and 1.4 nb-1, respectively. The kinematic selection for heavy-flavor muons requires transverse momentum 4<pT <30GeV and pseudorapidity ¦η¦ <2.0. The dominant sources of muons in this range are semi-leptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons. These heavy-flavor muons are separated from light-hadron decay muons and punch-through hadrons using the momentum imbalance between the measurements in the tracking detector and in the muon spectrometers. Azimuthal anisotropies, quantified by flow coefficients, are measured via the event-plane method for inclusive heavy-flavor muons as a function of the muon pT  and in intervals of Pb+Pb collision centrality. Heavy-flavor muons are separated into contributions from charm and bottom hadron decays using the muon transverse impact parameter with respect to the event primary vertex. Non-zero elliptic (ν2) and triangular  (ν3) flow coefficients are extracted for charm and bottom muons, with the charm muon coefficients larger than those for bottom muons for all Pb+Pb collision centralities. The results indicate substantial modification to the charm and bottom quark angular distributions through interactions in the quark-gluon plasma produced in these Pb+Pb collisions, with smaller modifications for the bottom quarks as expected theoretically due to their larger mass.",
author = "ATLAS Collaboration and A.E. Barton and I.A. Bertram and G. Borissov and E.V. Bouhova-Thacker and H. Fox and R.C.W. Henderson and R.W.L. Jones and V. Kartvelishvili and R.E. Long and P.A. Love and D. Muenstermann and A.J. Parker and Izaac Sanderswood and M. Smizanska and A.S. Tee and J. Walder and A.M. Wharton and B.W. Whitmore and Melissa Yexley",
year = "2020",
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day = "10",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135595",
language = "English",
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journal = "Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier Science B.V.",

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Measurement of azimuthal anisotropy of muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

AU - Collaboration, ATLAS

AU - Barton, A.E.

AU - Bertram, I.A.

AU - Borissov, G.

AU - Bouhova-Thacker, E.V.

AU - Fox, H.

AU - Henderson, R.C.W.

AU - Jones, R.W.L.

AU - Kartvelishvili, V.

AU - Long, R.E.

AU - Love, P.A.

AU - Muenstermann, D.

AU - Parker, A.J.

AU - Sanderswood, Izaac

AU - Smizanska, M.

AU - Tee, A.S.

AU - Walder, J.

AU - Wharton, A.M.

AU - Whitmore, B.W.

AU - Yexley, Melissa

PY - 2020/8/10

Y1 - 2020/8/10

N2 - Azimuthal anisotropies of muons from charm and bottom hadron decays are measured in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2018 with integrated luminosities of  0.5 nb-1 and 1.4 nb-1, respectively. The kinematic selection for heavy-flavor muons requires transverse momentum 4<pT <30GeV and pseudorapidity ¦η¦ <2.0. The dominant sources of muons in this range are semi-leptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons. These heavy-flavor muons are separated from light-hadron decay muons and punch-through hadrons using the momentum imbalance between the measurements in the tracking detector and in the muon spectrometers. Azimuthal anisotropies, quantified by flow coefficients, are measured via the event-plane method for inclusive heavy-flavor muons as a function of the muon pT  and in intervals of Pb+Pb collision centrality. Heavy-flavor muons are separated into contributions from charm and bottom hadron decays using the muon transverse impact parameter with respect to the event primary vertex. Non-zero elliptic (ν2) and triangular  (ν3) flow coefficients are extracted for charm and bottom muons, with the charm muon coefficients larger than those for bottom muons for all Pb+Pb collision centralities. The results indicate substantial modification to the charm and bottom quark angular distributions through interactions in the quark-gluon plasma produced in these Pb+Pb collisions, with smaller modifications for the bottom quarks as expected theoretically due to their larger mass.

AB - Azimuthal anisotropies of muons from charm and bottom hadron decays are measured in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN=5.02 TeV. The data were collected with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 and 2018 with integrated luminosities of  0.5 nb-1 and 1.4 nb-1, respectively. The kinematic selection for heavy-flavor muons requires transverse momentum 4<pT <30GeV and pseudorapidity ¦η¦ <2.0. The dominant sources of muons in this range are semi-leptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons. These heavy-flavor muons are separated from light-hadron decay muons and punch-through hadrons using the momentum imbalance between the measurements in the tracking detector and in the muon spectrometers. Azimuthal anisotropies, quantified by flow coefficients, are measured via the event-plane method for inclusive heavy-flavor muons as a function of the muon pT  and in intervals of Pb+Pb collision centrality. Heavy-flavor muons are separated into contributions from charm and bottom hadron decays using the muon transverse impact parameter with respect to the event primary vertex. Non-zero elliptic (ν2) and triangular  (ν3) flow coefficients are extracted for charm and bottom muons, with the charm muon coefficients larger than those for bottom muons for all Pb+Pb collision centralities. The results indicate substantial modification to the charm and bottom quark angular distributions through interactions in the quark-gluon plasma produced in these Pb+Pb collisions, with smaller modifications for the bottom quarks as expected theoretically due to their larger mass.

U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135595

DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135595

M3 - Journal article

VL - 807

JO - Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys

JF - Phys Lett Sect B Nucl Elem Part High-Energy Phys

SN - 0370-2693

M1 - 135595

ER -