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Measurement
of
electrons
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Articlehistory:
Received12October2015
Receivedinrevisedform12November2015 Accepted21December2015
Availableonline31December2015 Editor:L.Rolandi
Theproductionofelectronsfromheavy-flavourhadrondecayswasmeasuredasafunctionoftransverse
momentum(pT)inminimum-biasp–Pb collisions at√sNN=5.02 TeV using theALICEdetectoratthe
LHC. The measurementcoversthe pTinterval 0.5<pT<12 GeV/c andthe rapidityrange −1.065<
ycms<0.135 in the centre-of-mass reference frame. The contribution of electrons from background
sources was subtractedusing an invariant mass approach. The nuclear modification factor RpPb was
calculatedbycomparingthepT-differentialinvariantcrosssectioninp–Pbcollisionstoappreferenceat
thesamecentre-of-massenergy,whichwasobtainedbyinterpolatingmeasurements at√s=2.76 TeV
and √s=7 TeV. The RpPb is consistentwithunity withinuncertainties ofabout 25%,whichbecome
largerforpTbelow1 GeV/c.Themeasurementshowsthatheavy-flavourproductionisconsistentwith
binary scaling,sothat asuppression inthe high-pT yieldin Pb–Pbcollisions hasto beattributed to
effectsinducedbythehotmediumproducedinthefinalstate.Thedatainp–Pbcollisionsaredescribed
byrecentmodelcalculationsthatincludecoldnuclearmattereffects.
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1. Introduction
TheQuark-GluonPlasma(QGP)[1,2],acolour-deconfined state of strongly-interacting matter, is predicted to exist at high tem-peratureaccordingtolatticeQuantumChromodynamics(QCD) cal-culations[3].Theseconditionscan bereachedinultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions [4–10]. Charm and beauty (heavy-flavour) quarks are mostly produced in initial hard scattering processes on a very short time scale, shorter than the formation time of theQGPmedium[11],andthus experiencethefulltemporaland spatial evolutionof thecollision. Whileinteracting withtheQGP medium, heavy quarks lose energy via elastic andradiative pro-cesses [12–14]. Heavy-flavour hadrons are therefore well-suited probestostudythepropertiesoftheQGP.Theeffectofenergyloss onheavy-flavourproduction canbe characterised viathe nuclear modificationfactor(RAA)ofheavy-flavourhadrons.The RAAis
de-fined as the ratio of the heavy-flavour hadron yield in nucleus– nucleus (A–A)collisions to that in proton–proton (pp) collisions scaled by the average number of binary nucleon–nucleon colli-sions.The RAA isstudieddifferentiallyasafunctionoftransverse
momentum(pT), rapidity( y)andcollisioncentrality.Itwas
mea-sured at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) [15–18] and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [19–22]. At RHIC, in central
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Au–Au collisionsat
√
sNN=
200 GeV the RAA of charmed mesonsand of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays shows that their productionisstronglysuppressedby afactorofabout5for
pT
>
3 GeV/c at
mid-rapidity. For the mostcentral Pb–Pbcolli-sions at
√
sNN=
2.
76 TeV at the LHC, a suppression by a factorof5–6isobservedforcharmedmesonsfor pT
>
5 GeV/c at
mid-rapidity[22].
The interpretation of the measurements in A–A collisions re-quires the study of heavy-flavour production in p–A collisions, whichprovidesaccesstocoldnuclearmatter(CNM)effects.These effects are not related to the formation of a colour-deconfined medium, but are present in case of colliding nuclei (or proton– nucleus). An important CNM effect inthe initial state is parton-density shadowing or saturation, which can be described using modified parton distribution functions (PDF) in the nucleus [23] or using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) effective theory [24]. FurtherCNMeffects includeenergyloss[25] intheinitial and fi-nalstatesandaCronin-likeenhancement[26]asaconsequenceof multiplescatterings[25,27].
The influence of the CNM effects can be studied by measur-ing the nuclearmodification factor RpA. Like the RAA,the RpA is
defined such that it is unity if there are no nuclear effects. For minimum-biasp–Acollisions,itcanbeexpressedas[28]
RpA
=
1 A dσpA/
dpT dσpp/
dpT,
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wheredσpA
/
dpT anddσpp/
dpT arethe pT-differential productioncrosssectionsofagivenparticlespeciesinp–Aandppcollisions, respectively,and A isthenumberofnucleonsinthenucleus.
Cold nuclear matter effects were recently investigated at the
RHIC and the LHC [29–44]. At RHIC, the nuclear modification
factor of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in central d–Au collisions (0–20%) at
√
sNN=
200 GeV is larger than unityatmid-rapidity in thetransverse momentum interval 1
.
5<
pT<
5 GeV
/c
[42]. The corresponding measurement for muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in central d–Au collisions shows a suppressionatforwardrapidityandanenhancementatbackward rapidity [43]. Theoretical modelsthat includethe modificationof thePDF inthe nucleuscanneitherexplain the enhancementnor thelargedifferencebetweenforwardandbackwardrapidity. Possi-bleexplanationsincludetheCronin-likeenhancement[26] dueto radial flow ofheavy mesons[45].At the LHC,the pT-differentialnuclear modification factor RpPb of D mesons measured in p–Pb
collisions at
√
sNN=
5.
02 TeV [44] is consistent with unity forpT
>
1 GeV/c and
isdescribedbytheoretical calculationsthatin-clude gluon saturation effects. Both atRHIC andat theLHC, the p/d–Ameasurementsindicatethatinitial-stateeffectsalonecannot explainthestrongsuppressionseenathigh-pTinnucleus–nucleus
collisions.
In this Letter, the pT-differential invariant cross section and
the nuclear modification factor RpPb of electrons from
heavy-flavourhadron decaysmeasuredinminimum-biasp–Pbcollisions at
√
sNN=
5.
02 TeV withALICEattheLHCarepresented.Themea-surementcoverstherapidityrange
−
1.
065<
ycms<
0.
135 inthecentre-of-masssystem(cms)forelectronswithtransverse momen-tum0
.
5<
pT<
12 GeV/c.
Thisrapidity coverage resultsfromthesamerigidityofthepandPbbeamsattheLHC,leadingtoa rapid-ityshiftof
|
yNN|
=
0.
465 between the nucleon–nucleoncms andthelaboratoryreferenceframe,inthedirectionofthepbeam.At low pT,themeasurementprobestheproductionofcharm-hadron
decays[46],providingsensitivitytothegluonPDFintheregimeof Bjorken-x oftheorderof10−4[47],whereasubstantialshadowing
effectisexpected[48].
ToobtainthenuclearmodificationfactorRpPbofelectronsfrom
heavy-flavour hadron decays, the pT-differential invariant cross
section in p–Pb collisions at
√
sNN=
5.
02 TeV was compared toa pp reference multiplied by 208, the Pb mass number. The pp reference was obtained by interpolating the pT-differential cross
sectionmeasurementsat
√
s=
2.
76 TeV and7 TeV.The Letter is organised as follows. The experimental appara-tus, data sample and event selection are described in Section 2. The electron reconstruction strategy and the pp reference spec-trumareexplainedinSections3and4,respectively.Themeasured
pT-differentialinvariantcrosssection,thenuclearmodification
fac-tor RpPb ofelectronsfromheavy-flavourhadrondecaysand
com-parisonofRpPbtomodelcalculationsarereportedinSection5. 2. Experimentalapparatus,datasampleandeventselection
A detailed description of the ALICE apparatus can be found in [49,50]. Electrons are reconstructed at mid-rapidity using the centralbarreldetectors(describedbelow)locatedinsideasolenoid magnet, which generates a magnetic field B
=
0.
5 T along the beamdirection.TheInnerTrackingSystem(ITS),theclosestdetectortothe in-teraction point, includes sixcylindricallayers of silicondetectors withthreedifferenttechnologies(pixel,driftandstrip)atradii be-tween 3.9 cm and 43 cmwith a pseudorapidity coverage inthe laboratoryreferenceframeinthefullazimuthbetween
|
η
lab|
<
2.0atsmallradiiand
|
η
lab|
<
0.9atlargeradii[49,51].Thetwoinner-mostlayers formthe Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD), which plays a
keyroleinprimaryandsecondaryvertexreconstruction.Atan in-cidentangleperpendiculartothedetectorsurfaces,thetotal mate-rialbudgetoftheITScorrespondsonaverageto7.7%ofaradiation length [51].The maintracking device inthecentral barrelis the TimeProjectionChamber(TPC) [52],whichsurroundstheITSand covers a pseudorapidity rangeof
|
η
lab|
<
0.9 inthefull azimuth.Thetrackreconstructionproceedsinwardfromtheouterradiusof the TPCto theinnermostlayer ofthe ITS[50]. The TPCprovides particle identificationviathe measurementofthespecific energy lossdE
/
dx.TheTime-Of-Flightarray(TOF),basedonMulti-gap Re-sistivePlateChambers,coversthefullazimuthand|
η
lab|
<
0.9ata radial distanceof 3.7 mfrom the interaction point [53]. Using the particle time-of-flight measurement, electrons can be distin-guishedfromhadronsfor pT
≤
2.
5 GeV/c.
Thecollisiontime,usedforthecalculationofthetime-of-flighttotheTOFdetector,is mea-suredby anarray ofCherenkovcounters,theT0detector,located at
+
350 cm and−
70 cm from the interaction point along the beamdirection[54].TheElectromagneticCalorimeter(EMCal), sit-uatedbehindtheTOF,isasamplingcalorimeterbasedonShashlik technology[55].Itsgeometricalacceptanceis107◦inazimuthand|
η
lab|
<
0.7. Inthis analysis, theazimuthal angleandη
coveragewere limitedto100◦ and0.6, respectively,toensure uniform de-tectorperformance.
The minimum-bias (MB) p–Pb datasample used inthis anal-ysis was collected in 2013. The trigger condition required a co-incidence of signalsbetween thetwo V0scintillator hodoscopes, placed on either side ofthe interaction point at2
.
8<
η
lab<
5.
1and
−
3.
7<
η
lab<
−
1.
7,synchronisedwiththepassageofbunchesfrombothbeams[54].The backgroundduetointeractions ofone ofthetwobeamsandresidualparticlesinthebeamvacuumtube was rejectedintheofflineeventselectionbycorrelating thetime informationofthe V0detectorswiththatfromthe twoZero De-greeCalorimeters(ZDC) [50],thatarelocated112.5 mawayfrom the interaction point along the beam pipe, symmetrically on ei-therside.Theprimaryvertexwasreconstructedwithtracksinthe ITSandtheTPC[50].Eventswithaprimaryvertexlocatedfarther than
±
10 cm from thecentreoftheinteraction regionalong the beamdirectionwererejected.About10%oftheeventsdonotfulfil thisselectioncriterion.Asampleof100millioneventspassedthe offline eventselection, corresponding toan integrated luminosityLint
=
47.
8±
1.
6 μb−1,giventhecrosssectionσ
MBV0=
2.
09±
0.
07 bfortheminimum-biasV0triggercondition [56].Theefficiencyfor thetriggerconditionandofflineeventselectionislargerthan99% fornon-single-diffractive(NSD)p–Pbcollisions [57].
3. Analysis
A combination of electron identification (eID) strategies with different detectors offers the largest pT reach for the
measure-mentofelectronsfromheavy-flavourhadrondecays.Inparticular, it ensures that thesystematic uncertainties andthe hadron con-taminationaresmalloverthewholetransversemomentumrange. Throughoutthepaper,theterm‘electron’isusedforelectronsand positrons. The capabilityofthe TPCtoidentifyelectrons via spe-cific energy loss dE
/
dx in thedetector was usedover the whole momentum range 0.
5<
pT<
12 GeV/c.
However, itis subjecttoambiguous identification of hadrons (pions, kaons, protons and deuterons)below2
.
5 GeV/c and
above6 GeV/c in
transverse mo-mentum. At low transverse momentum (0.
5<
pT<
2.
5 GeV/c),
these ambiguities were resolved by measuring the time-of-flight oftheparticlefromtheinteractionregiontotheTOFdetectorand combiningitwiththemomentummeasurement,todeterminethe particlemass.Inthehighmomentumregion(6
<
pT<
12 GeV/c),
theEMCalwasusedtoreducethehadroncontamination.Electrons are separatedfromhadronsbycalculatingtheratiooftheenergy
Fig. 1. (a):MeasureddE/dx intheTPCasfunctionofmomentump expressedasadeviationfromtheexpectedenergylossofelectrons, normalisedbytheenergy-loss resolution(σTPC) aftereIDwithTOF.ThesolidlinesindicatethenTPCσ selectioncriteriafortheTPCandTOFeIDstrategy.(b):E/p distributionofelectrons(−1<nTPCσ <3)
andhadrons(nTPC
σ <−3.5)inthetransversemomentuminterval6<pT<8 GeV/c.TheE/p distributionofhadronswasnormalisedtothatofelectronsinthelowerE/p
range(0.4–0.6),wherehadronsdominate.Thesolidlinesindicatetheappliedelectronselectioncriteria.(Forinterpretationofthereferencestocolorinthisfigurelegend, thereaderisreferredtothewebversionofthisarticle.)
deposited(E) intheEMCaltothemomentum(p).Sinceelectrons depositall oftheir energyin theEMCal,the ratio E/p isaround unity forelectrons, while the ratio for charged hadronsis much smalleronaverage.
Theselection criteriaforcharged-particle tracksare similar to those applied in previous analyses measuring the production of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp collisions [58, 59].In orderto haveoptimaleIDperformance with theTPC, the analysis was restricted to the pseudorapidity range
|
η
lab|
<
0.
6inthe laboratoryframe forelectrons withtransverse momentum 0
.
5<
pT<
12 GeV/c.
Up to a pT of6 GeV/c,
a signal in thein-nermost layer of the SPD was required in order to reduce the background from photon conversions. In addition, this selection was further constrained by requiring hits in both SPD layers, to reducethenumberofincorrectmatchesbetweencandidatetracks andhits reconstructed in the first layer of the SPD. At high pT,
wheretheEMCal was used,trackswithhitsin eitheroftheSPD layerswereselectedinordertominimisetheeffectofdeadareas ofthefirst SPDlayer withinthe acceptanceregion ofthe EMCal, asinpreviousanalyses[58,59].
TheelectronidentificationwithTPCandTOFwasbasedonthe numberofstandard deviations(nTPC
σ ornTOFσ ) forthe specific
en-ergy loss and time-of-flight measurements, respectively. The nσ
variable is computedas a difference betweenthe measured sig-nal and the expected one for electrons divided by the energy loss (σTPC) or time-of-flight (σTOF) resolution. The expected
sig-nal and resolution originate from parametrisations of the detec-tor signal, which are described in detail in [50]. In the trans-verse momentum interval 0
.
5<
pT<
2.
5 GeV/c, particles
wereidentified as electrons if they satisfied
−
0.
5<
nTPCσ<
3, which yields an identification efficiency of 69%. In the transverse mo-mentuminterval 2.
5<
pT<
6 GeV/c,
a tighterselection criterionof 0
<
nTPCσ<
3 was applied (with an eID efficiency of 50%) to reduce the hadron contamination at higher transverse momen-tum.Toresolvetheaforementionedambiguitiesatlowtransverse momentum (pT≤
2.
5 GeV/c),
only tracks with|
nTOFσ|
<
3 wereaccepted. Fig. 1(a) shows the measured dE
/
dx in the TPC with respecttotheexpecteddE/
dx forelectronsnormalisedtothe ex-pectedresolutionσ
TPCaftertheeIDwithTOF.Thesolidlinesindi-catetheselectioncriteriausedforthetransversemomentum
inter-val0
.
5<
pT<
2.
5 GeV/c,
indicatingthatthehadroncontaminationwithintheresultingelectroncandidatesampleissmall.Inthehigh momentumregion(6
<
pT<
12 GeV/c),
electronswereselectediftheysatisfied
−
1<
nTPCσ<
3 and0.
8<
E/p<
1.
2 (seeFig. 1(b)). The hadron contamination in the electron candidate sample was determined by parametrising the TPC signal in momentum slicesforpT≤
6 GeV/c as
doneinpreviousanalyses[58,59].In thetransverse momentum interval 6
<
pT<
12 GeV/c,
the E/pdis-tribution forhadronsidentified via the specific energyloss mea-suredinthe TPC(nTPCσ
<
−
3.
5) wasnormalised inthelower E/prange(0.4–0.6)tothecorrespondingE/p distributionforidentified electrons (
−
1<
nTPCσ
<
3) (see Fig. 1(b)).The number ofhadronswith an E
/p ratio
between 0.8 and 1.2was thus determined in momentum slices. The hadron contamination ranged from2% at 5<
pT<
6 GeV/c to
15% at10<
pT<
12 GeV/c and
wascorre-spondingly subtracted. For pT
<
5 GeV/c,
the contamination wasfoundtobenegligible.
Theresultingelectroncandidatesample,alsoreferredtoasthe ‘inclusiveelectronsample’inthefollowing,stillcontainselectrons fromsourcesotherthanheavy-flavourhadrondecays.Themajority of theremaining backgroundoriginates fromphoton conversions inthedetectormaterial(γ
→
e+e−) andDalitzdecaysofneutral mesons,e.g.π
0→
γ
e+e− andη
→
γ
e+e−.Theseelectronsare hereafterdenotedas‘photonicelectrons’.Inpreviousanalysesofelectronsfromheavy-flavourhadron de-caysinppcollisionsbytheALICECollaboration,thecontributionof electronsfrombackgroundsourceswasestimatedviaadata-tuned Monte Carlo cocktail and subtracted from the inclusive electron sample [58,59].Thepioninput tothecocktail wasbasedon pion measurementswithALICE[60,61],whileheaviermesonswere im-plemented via mT scaling[62],andphotonsfromhard scattering
processes(direct
γ
,γ
∗)wereobtainedfromnext-to-leadingorder (NLO)calculations[63].Theresultingsystematicuncertaintyofthe sumofall backgroundsourceswas large, inparticularatlow pT,wherethesignal-to-background ratioissmall[58,59].Inorder to reduce this uncertainty, in this analysis an invariant mass tech-nique[16] was usedto estimatethe numberofelectrons coming frombackgroundsources.
Photonicelectronsareproducedine+e−pairsandcanthusbe identified using an invariant mass technique (photonic method).
Fig. 2. Invariantmassdistributionsofunlike-sign andlike-signelectronpairsfor theinclusiveelectronpTinterval0.5<pT<0.6 GeV/c.Thedifferencebetweenthe distributionsyieldsthephotoniccontribution.
Allinclusiveelectrons were paired withother tracks inthe same eventpassingloosertrackselectionandelectronidentification cri-teria(e.g.
−
3<
nTPCσ
<
3).Looserselectioncriteriawereappliedtoincrease the efficiencyto findthe photonic partner. Fig. 2shows theinvariant massdistributions ofunlike-sign andlike-sign elec-tron pairs for the inclusive electron in the interval 0
.
5<
pT<
0
.
6 GeV/c.
The like-sign distribution estimates the uncorrelated pairs.Subtractingthesefromtheunlike-signpairsyieldsthe num-ber of electrons with a photonic partner Nphotraw (see Fig. 2). An invariant mass smaller than 0.14 GeV/c2 was required. Accord-ing to simulations, the peak around zero in the photonic elec-tronpairdistribution isdueto photonconversions; the exponen-tialtail to higher valuesoriginates fromDalitz decays of neutral mesons.The efficiency
ε
phot to find photonic electron pairs wasesti-matedusingMonteCarlosimulations.Asampleofp–Pbcollisions was generated with HIJING v1.36 [64]. Toincrease the statistical precision at high pT, one cc or bb pair decaying
semileptoni-cally usingthe generatorPYTHIAv6.4.21 [65] withthePerugia-0 tune[66] was added ineach event.The generatedparticles were propagated throughtheapparatususingGEANT3 [67]anda real-isticdetectorresponse wasappliedto reproducetheperformance of the detector systemduring data taking period.The simulated transversemomentumdistributionsofthe
π
0 andη
mesonswereweighted to match the measured shapes, where the
π
0 inputwas basedon themeasured charged-pion spectra [68,69] assum-ing Nπ0
=
1/
2(
Nπ++
Nπ−)
andtheη
input was derived via mTscaling.Theefficiency
ε
phot isdefinedasthefractionofelectronsfromphotonicoriginforwhichthepartnercouldbefoundwithin the defined acceptance of the analysis, i.e. the geometrical ac-ceptanceof theALICEapparatustogether with thesuperimposed track selection and electron identification criteria. The efficiency
ε
phot increasessharplywithpT from35%to80%between0.5and3 GeV
/c and
remains at 80% up to 12 GeV/c.
The raw photonic electron distribution Nrawphot was then corrected by the efficiencyε
phot as Nphot(p
T)
=
Nrawphot(p
T)/
ε
phot(p
T)
andsubtracted fromtheinclusiveelectronyieldtoobtaintheyieldofelectronsfrom heavy-flavour hadron decays. The signal-to-background ratio (ratio of non-photonic to photonicyield) ranges from0.2 at 0.5 GeV/c to 4at10 GeV/c.
The remaining electrons are then those from semileptonic heavy-flavourhadrondecays(Nhferaw),besidesasmallresidual back-ground contribution originating from semileptonic kaon decays
anddielectron decaysofJ
/ψ
mesons. Thelatteris theonly non-negligible contribution from quarkonia.These contributions were subtractedfromthecorrectedinvariantcrosssection,asdescribed lateroninthissection.ThepT-differentialinvariantcrosssection
σ
hfeofelectronsfromheavy-flavourhadrondecays,1
/
2(
e++
e−)
,wascalculatedas1 2πpT d2
σ
hfe dpTd y=
1 2 1ϕ
pcentreT 1y
pT
cunfoldNrawhfe
(
geo
×
reco
×
eID
)
σ
V0MB
NMB
,
(2)where pcentre
T arethecentresofthe pTbinswithwidths
p
T,andϕ
andy denote
thegeometricalacceptanceinazimuthand ra-piditytowhichtheanalysiswasrestricted,respectively.NMBisthenumberofeventsthatpasstheselectioncriteriadescribedin Sec-tion 2 and
σ
V0MB is the p–Pb cross section for the minimum-bias
V0 trigger condition. The rawspectrum ofelectrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays(Nrawhfe) wascorrected fortheacceptanceof the detectors in the selected geometrical region of the analysis (geo),thetrackreconstructionandselectionefficiency(reco),and
the eID efficiency(eID). These correctionswere computedusing
theaforementionedMonteCarlosimulations.Onlytheefficiencyof theTPCelectronidentificationselectioncriterionforpT
<
6 GeV/c
was determined usinga data-driven approach based on thenTPCσ
distribution [59]. Themeasurement oftheelectron pT isaffected
by the finite momentum resolution and by electron energy loss duetobremsstrahlunginthedetectormaterial[49],whichisnot corrected for in the trackreconstruction algorithm. These effects distort theshape of the pT distribution,which fallssteeply with
increasingmomentum.Todeterminethiscorrection(cunfold),an
it-erativeunfoldingprocedurebasedonBayes’theoremwas applied [70,71].
The aforementioned residual background contributions, elec-tronsfromsemileptonickaondecaysanddielectrondecaysofJ
/ψ
mesons,were estimatedasan invariant crosssectionwithMonte Carlosimulationsandfoundtobelessthan3%perpTbinand
sub-tractedfromthecorrectedinvariant crosssection ofnon-photonic electrons.Morespecifically,thecontributionfromJ
/ψ
mesonswas implemented by using a parametrisation for pp collisions based on the interpolation of J/ψ
measurements from RHIC at√
s=
200 GeV,Tevatron at
√
s=
1.
96 TeV,andthe LHCat√
s=
7 TeV accordingto [72].Decays ofJ/ψ
mesonswithin|
ylab|
<
1.0wereconsidered. Theparametrisationandits associatedsystematic un-certainty werescaled frompptop–Pbcollisions assumingbinary collision scaling.Potentialdeviationsfrombinary collision scaling wereconsideredbyassigning a50%systematicuncertaintyonthe normalisation. The parametrisationwithits uncertainties usedas inputfortheMonteCarlosimulationsisconsistentwiththe mea-suredJ
/ψ
crosssectioninp–Pbcollisions[38].The systematic uncertainties were estimated as a function of
pT by repeating theanalysis withdifferentselection criteria. The
systematicuncertaintieswereevaluatedforthespectrumobtained afterthesubtractionofthephotonicyieldNphotfromtheinclusive
spectrum andbefore removing the remaining background contri-butions originatingfromsemileptonickaondecaysanddielectron decays of J
/ψ
mesons. The sources of systematic uncertaintyfor theinclusiveanalysisandthedeterminationoftheelectron back-groundarelistedinTable 1.The systematic uncertainties for tracking and eID are pT
de-pendentduetotheusageofthevariousdetectorsinthedifferent momentumintervals.Thelatteralsoincludestheuncertaintiesdue tothedeterminationofthehadroncontamination.The3% system-aticuncertaintyforthematchingbetweenITSandTPCwastaken from [73], where the matching efficiency of charged particles in
Table 1
Systematicuncertaintiesforthedifferentmomentumintervals.
Variable 0.5<pT<2.5 GeV/c 2.5<pT<6 GeV/c 6<pT<12 GeV/c
Tracking 4.3% 2.2% 3% Matching 4.2% 3% 3.2% eID 3.6% 3.6% 3.2% (6–8 GeV/c) 5.1% (8–10 GeV/c) 15.1% (10–12 GeV/c) Photonic method 6.9% (0.5–1 GeV/c) 2.4% 4.5% 3.7% (1–2.5 GeV/c) Unfolding 1% 1% <1%
Total 9.9% (0.5–1 GeV/c) 5.8% 7.1% (6–8 GeV/c)
8.0% (1–2.5 GeV/c) 8.1% (8–10 GeV/c)
16.4% (10–12 GeV/c)
data was compared to Monte Carlosimulations. The uncertainty ofthe TOF-TPC matching efficiencywas estimatedby comparing thematching efficiency indata andMonte Carlosimulations us-ingelectrons fromphoton conversions, whichwere identified via topological cuts. The uncertainty amounts to 3%. The TPC-EMCal matching uncertainty was assigned to be 1%, as determined by varyingthesizeofthematchingwindowin
η
andazimuthϕ
for charged-particle tracksthat were extrapolatedto thecalorimeter. Theresultingmatchinguncertaintieswerecombinedinquadrature forthevarious pTintervalsshowninTable 1.The listed uncertainties for the photonic method include the uncertainties on eID and tracking. In addition, the Monte Carlo sample was divided into two halves. The first was treated as realdataand thesecond was used tocorrect theresulting spec-trum.Deviationsfromtheexpected pTspectrumofelectronsfrom
heavy-flavour hadron decays resulted in a 2% systematic uncer-tainty for pT
≤
6 GeV/c and
4% above. The uncertainty on there-weighting of the
π
0- andη
-meson pT distributions inMonte
Carlosimulationswasestimatedbychangingtheweightsby
±
10%. The variation yielded a 2% uncertainty for pT≤
2.
5 GeV/c on
thepT-differentialinvariantcrosssectionofelectronsfrom
heavy-flavour hadron decays.This source ofuncertainty isnegligible at higherpT.Theinvariantmasstechniquegivesasystematic
uncer-taintysmallerbyafactorof
≥
4 andofabout1.4forpT≤
1 GeV/c
and3
<
pT<
12 GeV/c,
respectively, comparedto theone ofthecocktailsubtractionmethod[59].Thereduction inuncertainty,in particularatlow pT,proves the advantageof usingthe invariant
mass technique for the estimation of electrons from background sources.
Theuncertaintyofthe pTunfoldingprocedurewasdetermined
by employing an alternativeunfolding method (matrix inversion) and,asdescribedin[59],bycorrectingthedatawithtwodifferent MonteCarlosamplescorrespondingtodifferentpTdistributions.In
additiontotheaforementionedsignal-enhancedMonteCarlo sam-ple,aminimum-biassample wasused.Thecomparisonofthe re-sultingpT spectrarevealedanuncertaintyof1%forpT
≤
6 GeV/c,
andsmaller than1% above6 GeV
/c.
The systematicuncertainties ofthe heavy-flavour electron yield dueto the subtractionof the remaining backgroundoriginatingfromsemileptonic kaondecays anddielectrondecaysfromJ/ψ
mesonsaresmallerthan0.5%.This wasestimatedbychangingtheparticleyieldsby±
50% and±
100% fortheJ/ψ
mesonandthesemileptonickaondecays,respectively. The individual sources of systematic uncertainties are uncor-related. Therefore,they were added in quadratureto give a total systematicuncertainty rangingfrom 5.8% to 16.4% depending on the pT bin. The normalisation uncertainty on the luminosity isof 3.7%[56].
Fig. 3showstheinterval2
.
5<
pT<
8 GeV/c of
thepT-differen-tialinvariant crosssection ofelectrons fromheavy-flavourhadron decaysinminimum-biasp–Pbcollisionsat
√
sNN=
5.
02 TeV,com-Fig. 3. The pT-differentialinvariant crosssectionofelectronsfromheavy-flavour hadron decaysinminimum-biasp–Pbcollisions at√sNN=5.02 TeV,comparing theresultsoftheeIDstrategiesinthetwotransitionregionsat2.5and6 GeV/c.
ThecentrevaluesareslightlyshiftedalongthepT-axisinthetransitionregionsfor bettervisibility.Theresultsagreewithin1%.DetailsontheeIDstrategiescanbe foundinthetext.
paringtheresultsofthevariouseIDstrategiesinthetwotransition regions at 2
.
5 GeV/c and
6 GeV/c.
A consistency within 1% is found.4. ppreference
In order to calculate the nuclear modification factor RpPb,
a reference cross section forpp collisions at the same centre-of-mass energyis needed. Since pp dataat
√
s=
5.
02 TeV are cur-rently not available, the reference was obtained by interpolating the pT-differential cross sections of electrons from heavy-flavourhadrondecaysmeasuredinpp collisionsat
√
s=
2.
76 TeV andat√
s
=
7 TeV [58,59].Theanalysisdescribed in thispaperrequires a referenceinthe interval0.
5<
pT<
12 GeV/c.
While the√
s
=
2
.
76 TeV analysiswascarriedoutinthispTrange,the√
s
=
7 TeV measurement is limited to the pT interval 0.
5<
pT<
8 GeV/c.
Thus, to extendthe pT interval up to 12 GeV
/c a
measurementby theATLAS Collaborationin the pT interval 7
<
pT<
12 GeV/c
was used [74]. The published ATLAS measurement, dσ
/
dpT, wasdividedby1
/(
2πpcentreT
y)
,wherepcentreT denotesthecentralval-ues of the pT bins, and
y the
rapidity range covered by themeasurement.Intheoverlapinterval7
<
pT<
8 GeV/c the
ALICEandATLASmeasurements,whichagreewithinuncertainties,were combined as a weighted average. The inverse quadratic sum of statistical and systematic uncertainties of the two spectra were used as weights. Perturbative QCD (pQCD) calculations at fixed order withnext-to-leading-log (FONLL) resummation[75–77] de-scribe all aforementioned pp results [58,59] within experimental and theoretical uncertainties. The pp references are measured in asymmetric rapiditywindow(
|
ycms|
<
0.
8 at√
s
=
2.
76 TeV and|
ycms|
<
0.
5 at√
s
=
7 TeV).Theeffectduetothedifferent asym-metricrapiditywindowinthisanalysiswasestimatedwithFONLL andismuchsmallerthanthesystematicuncertaintiesofthedata, thereforeiswasneglected.Anassumption aboutthe
√
s dependence oftheheavy-flavour productioncross sectionsisrequired fortheinterpolation. Calcu-lationsbasedonpQCDareconsistentwithapower-lawscalingof theheavy-flavourproductioncrosssectionwith√
s[78]. Therefore,Fig. 4. The pT-differentialinvariantcross sectionofelectronsfromheavy-flavour hadrondecaysinminimum-biasp–Pbcollisionsat√sNN=5.02 TeV.Thepp refer-enceobtainedviatheinterpolationmethodisshown,notscaledbyA,for compar-ison.Thestatisticaluncertaintiesareindicatedforbothspectrabyerrorbars,the systematicuncertaintiesareshownasboxes.
thisscalingwasusedtocalculatetheinterpolateddatapoints.The statisticaluncertainties ofthespectraat
√
s=
2.
76 TeV and√
s=
7 TeV were added in quadrature with weights according to the
√
s interpolation.Theweightedcorrelatedsystematicuncertainties (tracking,matchingandeID)ofthespectraat
√
s=
2.
76 TeV and√
s
=
7 TeV wereaddedlinearly,whiletheweighted uncorrelated uncertainties(ITS layerconditions,unfolding andcocktail system-atics) were added in quadrature. The weights were determined accordingtothe√
s interpolation.Theuncorrelatedandcorrelated uncertaintieswerethenaddedinquadrature.Thesystematicuncertaintyofthebin-by-bininterpolation pro-cedurewasaddedinquadraturetothepreviousones.Itwas esti-matedbyusingalinearorexponentialdependenceon
√
s insteadofapowerlaw.Theratiosoftheresulting pT spectratothe
base-linepp reference were usedto estimate asystematic uncertainty of+−105%.
The resulting pp reference cross section is well described by FONLLcalculations.Thesystematicuncertaintiesofthe normalisa-tionsrelatedtothedeterminationoftheminimum-biasnucleon– nucleon cross sections of the input spectra were likewise inter-polated, yielding a normalisation uncertainty of 2.3% for the pp referencespectrum,assumingthattheyareuncorrelated.
5. Results
The pT-differential invariant cross section of electrons from
heavy-flavour hadron decays in the rapidity range
−
1.
065<
ycms<
0.
135 for p–Pbcollisions at√
sNN=
5.
02 TeV isshown in Fig. 4andcomparedwiththeppreferencecrosssection. The ver-tical bars represent the statistical uncertainties, while the boxes indicate the systematic uncertainties. The systematic uncertain-ties of the p–Pb cross section are smaller than those of the pp cross section, in particularat low transverse momentum, mainly as a consequence of the estimation of the electron background via the invariant mass technique. For the pp analysis, the back-ground was subtracted via the cocktail method. At low pT, theelectrons mainly originate from charm-hadron decays, while for
pT
≥
4 GeV/c beauty-hadron
decays are the dominant source inppcollisions[46].
Fig. 5. NuclearmodificationfactorRpPbofelectronsfromheavy-flavourhadron de-caysasafunctionoftransversemomentumforminimum-biasp–Pbcollisionsat
√sNN=5
.02 TeV,comparedwiththeoreticalmodels[25,27,45,48,75],asdescribed inthetext.Theverticalbarsrepresentthestatisticaluncertainties,andtheboxes indicatethesystematicuncertainties.Thesystematicuncertaintyfromthe normali-sation,commontoallpoints,isshownasafilledboxathighpT.
The nuclear modificationfactor RpPb ofelectrons from
heavy-flavour hadron decays asa function of transverse momentum is showninFig. 5.Thestatisticalandsystematicuncertaintiesofthe spectra in p–Pb andpp were propagated as independent uncer-tainties. The normalisation uncertainties ofthe pp referenceand thep–Pbspectrumwereaddedinquadratureandareshownasa filledboxathightransversemomentuminFig. 5.
The RpPbisconsistentwithunitywithinuncertaintiesoverthe
whole pT rangeofthe measurement.Theproductionofelectrons
from heavy-flavourhadron decays isthus consistent withbinary collisionscaling ofthereferencespectrumforpp collisionsatthe samecentre-of-massenergy.Thesuppressionoftheyieldof heavy-flavour production in Pb–Pb collisions at high-pT is therefore a
finalstateeffectinducedbytheproducedhotmedium.
Given the large systematic uncertainties, our measurement is also compatiblewithan enhancement in the transverse momen-tum interval 1
<
pT<
6 GeV/c as
seen at mid-rapidity in d–Aucollisionsat
√
sNN=
200 GeV[42].SuchanenhancementmightbecausedbyradialflowassuggestedbystudiesonthemeanpT asa
functionoftheidentifiedparticlemultiplicity[68].
The data are described within the uncertainties by pQCD cal-culations including initial-state effects (FONLL [75]
+
EPS09NLO [48] nuclear shadowingparametrisation).The resultssuggestthat initial-state effects are small at high transverse momentum in Pb–Pb collisions.CalculationsbySharmaet al.whichincludeCNM energy loss, nuclear shadowing andcoherent multiple scattering atthepartoniclevelalsodescribethedata[27].Calculationsbased on incoherent multiple scatterings by Kang et al. predict an en-hancement atlow pT [25]. The formation of a hydrodynamicallyexpanding medium and consequently flow of charm and beauty quarks are expectedto result in an enhancement in the nuclear modification factor RpPb [45]. To quantify the possible effect on
RpPb,a blastwavecalculationwithparameters extractedfromfits
to the pT spectraoflight-flavourhadrons[68] measured inp–Pb
collisions was employed. The model calculation agrees with the data. However, the present uncertainties of the measurement do not allowusto discriminateamongthe aforementioned theoreti-calapproaches.
6. Summaryandconclusions
The pT-differential invariant cross section for electrons from
heavy-flavourhadron decaysin minimum-bias p–Pb collisions at
√
sNN
=
5.
02 TeV was measured in the rapidity range−
1.
065<
ycms
<
0.
135 and the transverse momentum interval 0.
5<
pT<
12 GeV
/c using
the combination of three electron identification methods.Theapplicationofthe invariantmass techniqueto sub-tractelectronsnotoriginatingfromopenheavy-flavourhadron de-cays largely reducedthe systematicuncertainties withrespect to the cocktail subtraction method, in particular at low transverse momentum.The pp reference forthe nuclearmodification factorRpPb was obtained by interpolating the measured pT-differential
cross sections of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at
√
s
=
2.
76 TeV and√
s=
7 TeV.The RpPb isconsistent withunitywithinuncertaintiesofabout25%,whichbecomelargerforpT
be-low1 GeV
/c.
Thepresentedcalculationsdescribethe datawithin uncertainties.Theresultssuggestthatheavy-flavourproductionin minimum-bias p–Pbcollisions scales withthe number of binary collisions,although within uncertainties thedata are also consis-tentwithanenhancementabovethisscaling.Theconsistencywith unity of the RpPb at high pT indicates that the suppression ofheavy-flavourproductioninPb–Pb collisions isofdifferentorigin thancoldnuclearmattereffects.
Acknowledgements
The ALICECollaboration wouldlike to thank all its engineers andtechniciansfortheirinvaluablecontributionstothe construc-tionoftheexperimentandtheCERNacceleratorteamsforthe out-standingperformanceoftheLHCcomplex.TheALICECollaboration gratefully acknowledges the resources and support provided by allGrid centresandthe Worldwide LHCComputing Grid(WLCG) Collaboration. The ALICE Collaboration acknowledges the follow-ing funding agencies for their support in building and running theALICEdetector:State CommitteeofScience,World Federation ofScientists (WFS) andSwiss Fonds Kidagan, Armenia; Conselho Nacionalde Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico(CNPq), Fi-nanciadorade Estudose Projetos(FINEP),Fundação de Amparoà Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); NationalNatural Sci-enceFoundation ofChina (NSFC),the Chinese Ministryof Educa-tion(CMOE)andtheMinistryofScienceandTechnology ofChina (MSTC); Ministry ofEducation and Youth of the Czech Republic; Danish Natural Science Research Council, the Carlsberg Founda-tionandtheDanish NationalResearchFoundation;The European ResearchCouncilundertheEuropeanCommunity’sSeventh Frame-work Programme; Helsinki Institute of Physics and the Academy of Finland; French CNRS-IN2P3, the ‘Region Pays de Loire’, ‘Re-gion Alsace’, ‘Region Auvergne’ and CEA, France; German Bun-desministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Tech-nologie(BMBF)andtheHelmholtzAssociation;GeneralSecretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Development, Greece; HungarianOrszagos Tudomanyos KutatasiAlappgrammok (OTKA) andNationalOfficeforResearchandTechnology (NKTH); Depart-mentofAtomicEnergyandDepartmentofScienceandTechnology of the Government of India; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucle-are (INFN) andCentroFermi –Museo Storico dellaFisica e Cen-troStudi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi”,Italy; MEXT Grant-in-Aid for SpeciallyPromotedResearch,Japan;JointInstituteforNuclear Re-search,Dubna;NationalResearchFoundationofKorea(NRF); Con-sejoNacionaldeCiencayTecnologia(CONACYT),DirecciónGeneral de Asuntos del Personal Academico (DGAPA), México, Amerique Latine Formation academique – European Commission (ALFA-EC) andtheEPLANETProgram (EuropeanParticlePhysicsLatin Ameri-canNetwork);StichtingvoorFundamenteelOnderzoekderMaterie
(FOM)andtheNederlandseOrganisatievoorWetenschappelijk On-derzoek (NWO), Netherlands; Research Council ofNorway (NFR); NationalScienceCentre,Poland;MinistryofNational Education/In-stitute for Atomic Physics and National Council of Scientific Re-search in Higher Education (CNCSI-UEFISCDI), Romania; Ministry ofEducationandScience ofRussianFederation, RussianAcademy ofSciences,RussianFederalAgencyofAtomicEnergy,Russian Fed-eral Agency for Science and Innovations and The Russian Foun-dation for BasicResearch; Ministry ofEducation of Slovakia; De-partment of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa, South Africa; Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambi-entales yTecnologicas (CIEMAT),E-Infrastructureshared between EuropeandLatin America(EELA),MinisteriodeEconomíay Com-petitividad (MINECO) of Spain, Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación), Centro de Aplicaciones TecnológicasyDesarrollo Nu-clear(CEADEN),Cubaenergía,Cuba,andIAEA(InternationalAtomic EnergyAgency);SwedishResearchCouncil (VR)andKnut& Alice WallenbergFoundation (KAW);UkraineMinistryofEducationand Science;UnitedKingdomScienceandTechnologyFacilitiesCouncil (STFC);TheUnitedStatesDepartmentofEnergy,theUnitedStates NationalScience Foundation, the State of Texas, andthe State of Ohio; Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of Croatia and Unity throughKnowledge Fund, Croatia; Council ofScientific and IndustrialResearch(CSIR),NewDelhi,India;PontificiaUniversidad CatólicadelPerú.
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