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Elliptic Flow of Electrons from Beauty-Hadron Decays in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV. / ALICE Collaboration.
In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 126, No. 16, 162001, 19.04.2021.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Elliptic Flow of Electrons from Beauty-Hadron Decays in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN =5.02 TeV
AU - ALICE Collaboration
AU - Acharya, S.
AU - Adamová, D.
AU - Adler, A.
AU - Adolfsson, J.
AU - Aggarwal, M. M.
AU - Aglieri Rinella, G.
AU - Agnello, M.
AU - Agrawal, N.
AU - Ahammed, Z.
AU - Ahmad, S.
AU - Ahn, S. U.
AU - Akbar, Z.
AU - Akindinov, A.
AU - Al-Turany, M.
AU - Alam, S. N.
AU - Albuquerque, D. S.D.
AU - Aleksandrov, D.
AU - Alessandro, B.
AU - Alfanda, H. M.
AU - Alfaro Molina, R.
AU - Ali, B.
AU - Ali, Y.
AU - Alici, A.
AU - Alizadehvandchali, N.
AU - Alkin, A.
AU - Alme, J.
AU - Alt, T.
AU - Altenkamper, L.
AU - Altsybeev, I.
AU - Anaam, M. N.
AU - Andrei, C.
AU - Andreou, D.
AU - Andronic, A.
AU - Angeletti, M.
AU - Anguelov, V.
AU - Anson, C.
AU - Antičić, T.
AU - Antinori, F.
AU - Antonioli, P.
AU - Apadula, N.
AU - Aphecetche, L.
AU - Appelshäuser, H.
AU - Erokhin, A.
AU - Feofilov, G.
AU - Kovalenko, V.
AU - Lazareva, T.
AU - Nesterov, D.
AU - Vechernin, V.
AU - Zarochentsev, A.
AU - Zherebchevskii, V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 CERN. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/4/19
Y1 - 2021/4/19
N2 - The elliptic flow of electrons from beauty hadron decays at midrapidity (|y|<0.8) is measured in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The azimuthal distribution of the particles produced in the collisions can be parametrized with a Fourier expansion, in which the second harmonic coefficient represents the elliptic flow, v2. The v2 coefficient of electrons from beauty hadron decays is measured for the first time in the transverse momentum (pT) range 1.3-6 GeV/c in the centrality class 30%-50%. The measurement of electrons from beauty-hadron decays exploits their larger mean proper decay length cτ≈500 μm compared to that of charm hadrons and most of the other background sources. The v2 of electrons from beauty hadron decays at midrapidity is found to be positive with a significance of 3.75 σ. The results provide insights into the degree of thermalization of beauty quarks in the medium. A model assuming full thermalization of beauty quarks is strongly disfavored by the measurement at high pT, but is in agreement with the results at low pT. Transport models including substantial interactions of beauty quarks with an expanding strongly interacting medium describe the measurement within uncertainties.
AB - The elliptic flow of electrons from beauty hadron decays at midrapidity (|y|<0.8) is measured in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector at the LHC. The azimuthal distribution of the particles produced in the collisions can be parametrized with a Fourier expansion, in which the second harmonic coefficient represents the elliptic flow, v2. The v2 coefficient of electrons from beauty hadron decays is measured for the first time in the transverse momentum (pT) range 1.3-6 GeV/c in the centrality class 30%-50%. The measurement of electrons from beauty-hadron decays exploits their larger mean proper decay length cτ≈500 μm compared to that of charm hadrons and most of the other background sources. The v2 of electrons from beauty hadron decays at midrapidity is found to be positive with a significance of 3.75 σ. The results provide insights into the degree of thermalization of beauty quarks in the medium. A model assuming full thermalization of beauty quarks is strongly disfavored by the measurement at high pT, but is in agreement with the results at low pT. Transport models including substantial interactions of beauty quarks with an expanding strongly interacting medium describe the measurement within uncertainties.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.162001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.162001
M3 - Article
C2 - 33961482
AN - SCOPUS:85105687703
VL - 126
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 16
M1 - 162001
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