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Measurement of electrons from beauty hadron decays in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV

B. Abelev
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J. Faivre
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C. Roy
Laurent Aphecetche
Guillaume Batigne
B. Erazmus
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Magali Estienne
Marie Germain
Gines Martinez Garcia
Philippe Pillot
Alexandre Shabetai
Diego Stocco
B. Cheynis
Maxime Guilbaud

Abstract

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.

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in2p3-00723477 , version 1 (10-08-2012)

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B. Abelev, N. Arbor, G. Conesa Balbastre, J. Faivre, C. Furget, et al.. Measurement of electrons from beauty hadron decays in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV. Physics Letters B, 2013, 721, pp.13-23. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2013.01.069⟩. ⟨in2p3-00723477⟩
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