Beauty production in pp collisions at √s=2.76 TeV measured via semi-electronic decays

ALICE Collaboration

doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.026

Beauty production in pp collisions at √s=2.76 TeV measured via semi-electronic decays

ALICE Collaboration

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering
Czech Academy of Sciences
Panjab University
CERN
Politecnico di Torino
Sezione INFN
University of Bologna
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
Department of Physics Aligarh Muslim University
COMSATS University Islamabad
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information
Yale University
Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
University of Birmingham
Centro Fermi - Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics Nasu
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
University of Bergen
St. Petersburg State University
Universidade de São Paulo
National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
University of Münster
Ruder Boskovic Institute
Nantes Université
Goethe University Frankfurt
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
University of Oslo
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Cape Town
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Università and Sezione INFN
Gangneung-Wonju National University
Université Clermont Auvergne
University of Jammu
IRFU
Institute of Physics Bhubaneswar
University of Catania
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
University of Copenhagen
Université de Strasbourg
University of Houston
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Wayne State University
Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University
Technical University of Munich
Institute for Subatomic Physics of Utrecht University
Gauhati University
University of Tsukuba
INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Di Frascati
Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Institute for High Energy Physics
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University
Pusan National University
National Research Foundation
National Institute for Subatomic Physics
Purdue University
Russian Federal Nuclear Center (VNIIEF)
Central China Normal University
Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Peru
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Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear
University of Jyväskylä
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
Creighton University
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
University of Lund
Université Grenoble Alpes
CNRS-IN2P3
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios AVanzados (CINVESTAV)
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Institute of Space Science (ISS)
Bose Institute
National Centre for Nuclear Studies
University of Helsinki
University of Liverpool
RAS - Institute for Nuclear Research
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Ohio State University
Chicago State University
University of Split
Warsaw University of Technology
A. I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory (YereVan Physics Institute) Foundation
Tokyo University
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Sejong University
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Yonsei University
KTO Karatay University
Fachhochschule Worms
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
University of Texas at Austin
Suranaree University of Technology
Inha University
University of South-Eastern Norway
STFC Daresbury Laboratory
Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa
M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University
University of Tennessee
University of Rome La Sapienza
Comenius University
University of Belgrade
Indian Institute of Technology Indore
National Institute of Science Education and Research
Konkuk University
Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics
University of Zagreb
University of Rajasthan
University of Wrocław
Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
Hiroshima University
University of Kansas
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Abstract

The ALICE collaboration at the LHC reports measurement of the inclusive production cross section of electrons from semi-leptonic decays of beauty hadrons with rapidity |y|<0.8 and transverse momentum 1<p_T<10 GeV/c, in pp collisions at s=2.76 TeV. Electrons not originating from semi-electronic decay of beauty hadrons are suppressed using the impact parameter of the corresponding tracks. The production cross section of beauty decay electrons is compared to the result obtained with an alternative method which uses the distribution of the azimuthal angle between heavy-flavour decay electrons and charged hadrons. Perturbative QCD predictions agree with the measured cross section within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties. The integrated visible cross section, σ_b→e=3.47±0.40(stat)_−1.33 ^+1.12(sys)±0.07(norm) μb, was extrapolated to full phase space using Fixed Order plus Next-to-Leading Log (FONLL) calculations to obtain the total bb¯ production cross section, σ_bb¯=130±15.1(stat)_−49.8 ^+42.1(sys)_−3.1 ^+3.4(extr)±2.5(norm)±4.4(BR) μb.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-108
Number of pages	12
Journal	Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume	738
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.026
State	Published - 10 Nov 2014

Keywords

ALICE experiment
Beauty production
Heavy-flavour production
LHC
Single electrons
pp collisions

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Beauty production in pp collisions at √s=2.76 TeV measured via semi-electronic decays

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