%0 Journal Article
%T Measurement of the suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of muons from heavy-flavor decays in Pb plus Pb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector
%A ATLAS Collaboration (Aaboud, M. et al
%A Alvarez Piqueras, D.
%A Bailey, A. J.
%A Barranco Navarro, L.
%A Cabrera Urban, S.
%A Castillo, F. L.
%A Castillo Gimenez, V.
%A Cerda Alberich, L.
%A Costa, M. J.
%A Escobar, C.
%A Estrada Pastor, O.
%A Ferrer, A.
%A Fiorini, L.
%A Fuster, J.
%A Garcia, C.
%A Garcia Navarro, J. E.
%A Gonzalez de la Hoz, S.
%A Higon-Rodriguez, E.
%A Jimenez Pena, J.
%A Lacasta, C.
%A Lozano Bahilo, J. J.
%A Madaffari, D.
%A Mamuzic, J.
%A Marti-Garcia, S.
%A Melini, D.
%A Mitsou, V. A.
%A Pedraza Lopez, S.
%A Rodriguez Bosca, S.
%A Rodriguez Rodriguez, D.
%A Salt, J.
%A Soldevila, U.
%A Sanchez, J.
%A Valero, A.
%A Valls Ferrer, J. A.
%A Vos, M.
%J Physical Review C
%D 2018
%V 98
%N 4
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 2469-9985
%G English
%F ATLASCollaborationAaboud_etal2018
%O WOS:000447933100002
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3774), last updated on Tue, 06 Nov 2018 11:44:35 +0000
%X ATLAS measurements of the production of muons from heavy-flavor decays in root s(NN) = 2.76 TeV Pb+Pb collisions and root s = 2.76 TeV pp collisions at the LHC are presented. Integrated luminosities of 0.14 nb(-1) and 570 nb(-1) are used for the Pb+Pb and pp measurements, respectively, which are performed over the muon transverse momentum range 4 < pT < 14 GeV and for five Pb+Pb centrality intervals. Backgrounds arising from in-flight pion and kaon decays, hadronic showers, and misreconstructed muons are statistically removed using a template-fitting procedure. The heavy-flavor muon differential cross sections and per-event yields are measured in pp and Pb+Pb collisions, respectively. The nuclear modification factor R-AA obtained from these is observed to be independent of pT, within uncertainties, and to be less than unity, which indicates suppressed production of heavy-flavor muons in Pb+Pb collisions. For the 10% most central Pb+Pb events, the measured R-AA is approximately 0.35. The azimuthal modulation of the heavy-flavor muon yields is also measured and the associated Fourier coefficients v(n) for n = 2, 3, and 4 are given as a function of pT and centrality. They vary slowly with pT and show a systematic variation with centrality which is characteristic of other anisotropy measurements, such as that observed for inclusive hadrons. The measured R-AA and v(n) values are also compared with theoretical calculations.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044905
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05220
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.044905
%P 044905-34pp