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Azimuthal Angle Correlations of Muons Produced via Heavy-Flavor Decays in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
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Azimuthal Angle Correlations of Muons Produced via Heavy-Flavor Decays in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

Georges Aad, Braden Keim Abbott, Kira Abeling, Nils Julius Abicht, Haider Abidi, Asmaa Aboulhorma, Halina Abramowicz, Henso Abreu, Yiming Abulaiti, Bobby Samir Acharya, …
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3204/pubdb-2024-05282

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angular correlation calorimeter CERN LHC Coll correlation GeV hadron hard scattering heavy ion: scattering heavy quark: decay heavy quark: semileptonic decay J/psi K: decay lead Monte Carlo muon: pair numerical calculations p p: scattering PYTHIA quark gluon: plasma rapidity same sign TeV transverse momentum
Angular correlations between heavy quarks provide a unique probe of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Results are presented of a measurement of the azimuthal angle correlations between muons originating from semileptonic decays of heavy quarks produced in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and pp collisions at the LHC. The muons are measured with transverse momenta and pseudorapidities satisfying pTμ>4 GeV and |ημ|<2.4, respectively. The distributions of azimuthal angle separation Δϕ for muon pairs having pseudorapidity separation |Δη|>0.8, are measured in different Pb+Pb centrality intervals and compared to the same distribution measured in pp collisions at the same center-of-mass energy. Results are presented separately for muon pairs with opposite-sign charges, same-sign charges, and all pairs. A clear peak is observed in all Δϕ distributions at Δϕ∼π, consistent with the parent heavy-quark pairs being produced via hard-scattering processes. The widths of that peak, characterized using Cauchy-Lorentz fits to the Δϕ distributions, are found to not vary significantly as a function of Pb+Pb collision centrality and are similar for pp and Pb+Pb collisions. This observation will provide important constraints on theoretical descriptions of heavy-quark interactions with the quark-gluon plasma.

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