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Oxana Smirnova

Oxana Smirnova

Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of division

Oxana Smirnova

Measurement of Azimuthal Anisotropy of Muons from Charm and Bottom Hadrons in pp Collisions at s =13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

Author

  • G Aad
  • Torsten Åkesson
  • Simona Bocchetta
  • Lene Bryngemark
  • Eric Edward Corrigan
  • Caterina Doglioni
  • Kristian Gregersen
  • Eva Brottmann Hansen
  • Vincent Hedberg
  • Göran Jarlskog
  • Charles Kalderon
  • Edgar Kellermann
  • Balazs Konya
  • Else Lytken
  • Katja Mankinen
  • Caterina Marcon
  • Ulf Mjörnmark
  • Geoffrey André Adrien Mullier
  • Ruth Pöttgen
  • Trine Poulsen
  • Eleni Skorda
  • Oxana Smirnova
  • L. Zwalinski

Summary, in English

The elliptic flow of muons from the decay of charm and bottom hadrons is measured in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV using a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 150 pb-1 recorded by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The muons from heavy-flavor decay are separated from light-hadron decay muons using momentum imbalance between the tracking and muon spectrometers. The heavy-flavor decay muons are further separated into those from charm decay and those from bottom decay using the distance-of-closest-approach to the collision vertex. The measurement is performed for muons in the transverse momentum range 4-7 GeV and pseudorapidity range |η| < 2.4. A significant nonzero elliptic anisotropy coefficient v2 is observed for muons from charm decays, while the v2 value for muons from bottom decays is consistent with zero within uncertainties.

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2020-02-26

Language

English

Publication/Series

Physical Review Letters

Volume

124

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Physical Society

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Anisotropy
  • Decay (organic)
  • Germanium compounds
  • Hadrons
  • Tellurium compounds
  • Anisotropy coefficients
  • ATLAS detectors
  • Azimuthal anisotropy
  • Elliptic flows
  • Integrated luminosity
  • Muon spectrometer
  • Pseudorapidities
  • Transverse momenta
  • Charged particles

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1079-7114