Measurement of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in p-Pb collisions at
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- 作者：ALICE Collaboration
- 刊名：Physics Letters B
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：10 March 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：754
- 期：Complete
- 页码：81-93
- 全文大小：1205 K
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using the ALICE detector at the LHC. The measurement covers the ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=fc913c73eb2d293f338bf5eac1af122e" title="Click to view the MathML source">pub>T ub> interval ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si117.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=64f08a678f93b10e95cd074cc4808f53" title="Click to view the MathML source">0.5<pub>T ub><12 GeV/c and the rapidity range ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si129.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=75d9e03aaa27e92fff8630c644cede5b" title="Click to view the MathML source">−1.065<yub>cms ub><0.135 in the centre-of-mass reference frame. The contribution of electrons from background sources was subtracted using an invariant mass approach. The nuclear modification factor ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si114.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=7870a314240d78af9d436f8136f3b599" title="Click to view the MathML source">Rub>pPb ub> was calculated by comparing the ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=fc913c73eb2d293f338bf5eac1af122e" title="Click to view the MathML source">pub>T ub>-differential invariant cross section in p–Pb collisions to a pp reference at the same centre-of-mass energy, which was obtained by interpolating measurements at urce" class="mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si116.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=6f276a89225c9273288785adedf62c11">![View the MathML so<font color=]()
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. The ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si114.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=7870a314240d78af9d436f8136f3b599" title="Click to view the MathML source">Rub>pPb ub> is consistent with unity within uncertainties of about 25%, which become larger for ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=fc913c73eb2d293f338bf5eac1af122e" title="Click to view the MathML source">pub>T ub> below ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si10.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=ac3ba3974d40eee946a81b9971c005df" title="Click to view the MathML source">1 GeV/c. The measurement shows that heavy-flavour production is consistent with binary scaling, so that a suppression in the high-ulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0370269315010151&_mathId=si2.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0370269315010151&_rdoc=1&_issn=03702693&md5=fc913c73eb2d293f338bf5eac1af122e" title="Click to view the MathML source">pub>T ub> yield in Pb–Pb collisions has to be attributed to effects induced by the hot medium produced in the final state. The data in p–Pb collisions are described by recent model calculations that include cold nuclear matter effects.