Friday, August 10, 2012

1208.1902 (The ALICE Collaboration)

Measurement of electrons from beauty hadron decays in pp collisions at
sqrt{s} = 7 TeV
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The ALICE Collaboration
The production cross section of electrons from semileptonic decays of beauty hadrons was measured at mid-rapidity (|y| < 0.8) in the transverse momentum range 1 < pt < 8 Gev/c with the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC in pp collisions at a center of mass energy sqrt{s} = 7 TeV using an integrated luminosity of 2.2 nb^{-1}. Electrons from beauty hadron decays were selected based on the displacement of the decay vertex from the collision vertex. A perturbative QCD calculation agrees with the measurement within uncertainties. The data were extrapolated to the full phase space to determine the total cross section for the production of beauty quark-antiquark pairs.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.1902

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