Speaker
Description
Production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV with the ALICE detector
Tebogo Joyce Shaba on behalf of the ALICE Collaboration
North-West University, South Africa
iThemba LABs, Cape Town, South Africa
Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are produced in early stages of the hadronic collision via hard-parton scatterings. In ALICE, heavy-flavour particles are measured in the central barrel (|𝜂|<0.9) which is optimized for the reconstruction of hadrons, electrons, photons and jets, in the muon spectrometer (−4<𝜂<−2.5), which is responsible for the reconstruction of muons produced by decays of heavy-flavour hadrons, quarkonia and electroweak bosons via the single and di-muon decay channels. The inclusive single muon production cross sections from heavy-flavour hadron decays, produced at forward pseudorapidity, are measured using muon-triggered events in proton-proton (pp) collisions at √s = 13 TeV. The pT - differential cross sections are presented and compared to perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations. These measurements provide a testing ground for pQCD calculations.
