MEASUREMENTS OF HEAVY-FLAVOUR DECAY ELECTRONS IN PB-PB COLLISIONS WITH ALICE AT LHC
DEEPA THOMAS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 2015 US LHC USERS ASSOCIATION MEETING 11-13 NOVEMBER 2015
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MEASUREMENTS OF HEAVY-FLAVOUR DECAY ELECTRONS IN PB-PB COLLISIONS WITH ALICE AT LHC DEEPA THOMAS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 2015 US LHC USERS ASSOCIATION MEETING 11-13 NOVEMBER 2015 INTRODUCTION Discovery of asymptotic freedom lead to the
DEEPA THOMAS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN 2015 US LHC USERS ASSOCIATION MEETING 11-13 NOVEMBER 2015
Discovery of asymptotic freedom lead to the prediction of a deconfined state of quarks and gluons at high temperature and pressure à Quark Gluon Plasma. A unique way to study QCD matter in lab is by colliding heavy-ions at relativistic energies.
Currently at LHC, Pb ions collide at √sNN = 2.76 TeV.
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[1]. Yu. Dokshitzer and D.E. Kharzeev, Phys.Lett. B 519 199‐206 (2001).
Charm and beauty quarks (heavy quarks)
initial stage of the collisions with high Q2 values.
inelastic collisions in the QGP.
Heavy quarks lose less energy compared to light quarks and gluons in the QCD medium
radiation at forward angles θ < M/E. Harder fragmentation à measured hadron properties are closer to parton properties.
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One way to study heavy-quark production is using its semi-leptonic decay channel.
particles.
signature in electromagnetic calorimeter.
electron (HFE) measurements.
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Detectors used for analysis: Inner Tracking System à tracking, primary vertex reconstruction. Time Projection Chamber à tracking, momentum and dE/dx measurement. Time of Flight à PID. Transition Radiation Detector à Electron ID and trigger. Electromagnetic calorimeter à Energy measurement, EMC trigger. US Detector contribution : EMCal + DCal (from Run 2) VZero à MinBias trigger, centrality and event plane estimation. Silicon Pixel Detector à MinBias trigger.
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Important background electron sources :
and quarkonium decays. Background electrons subtracted using :
pion pT-differential yield (η and J/Ψ spectra used when available).
decays of neutral mesons and photon conversions. Electron identification
hypothesis.
electron Bethe-Bloch band.
TOF TPC EMCal
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<NColl> à average number of binary nucleon-nucleon collision dNPbPb/dpT à measured pT differential cross section in Pb-Pb collisions dσpp/dpT à reference pT differential cross section in pp collisions at the same √s as Pb-Pb collisions.
RAA = 1 à Absence of nuclear matter effects RAA < 1 à Indicates suppression of the observed yield in Pb-Pb collisions relative to pp collisions.
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electrons (RAA ~ 0.4) w.r.t reference pp reference in (0-10%) central Pb-Pb events. RAA of ~ 0.6 observed for semi-central Pb-Pb collisions. RAA (0-10%) < RAA (40-50%). RAA (0-10%) for pT
e < 18 GeV/c
RAA (40-50%) for pT
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momentum distribution.
ϕ is the azimuthal angle of the particle
hadrons at low pT (pT < 2−3 GeV/c).
One observables sensitive to the dynamics
azimuthal distribution of the emitted particles in the plane perpendicular to the beam direction. When nuclei collide at non-zero impact parameter the initial matter distribution is anisotropic (almond shaped).
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heavy-flavour decay electrons (|y|<0.7) compared with heavy- flavour decay muons (2.5 < y <4) Non-zero v2 observed in semi-central Pb-Pb collisions. Indication for v2(20-40%) > v2(10-20%) > v2(0-10%). v2 of heavy-flavour decay electrons consistent with that of HF-decay muons. Confirms strong interaction of heavy quarks with the medium. Supports that charm quarks participate in the collective expansion of the medium.
dN dϕ = N0 2π (1 + 2v1 cos(ϕ − Ψ1) + 2v2 cos(ϕ − Ψ2) + ...)
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POWLANG: Eur. Phys. J. C 71 (2011) 1666, J. Phys. G 38 (2011) 124144. BAMPS: Phys. Lett. B 717 (2012) 430 TAMU elastic: arXiv: 1401.3817 MC@ sHQ+EPOS, Coll + Rad (LPM): Phys. Rev. C 89 (2014) 014905
Simultaneous description of HF-decay electron RAA and v2 is challenging. à Can provide constraints to energy-loss models. Similar picture for heavy-flavour decay muons (and D mesons).
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0-10% 20-40%
ALICE measurement of HFE RAA, v2 in 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. RAA
~ 0.7 in 40-50% central Pb-Pb collisions.
v2
HFE
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