@article{feaa0b749c9f405babc0d19081034f24,
title = "Measurement of the production of high-pT electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV",
abstract = "Electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays (charm and beauty) were measured with the ALICE detector in Pb–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass of energy √sNN = 2.76 TeV. The transverse momentum (pT) differential production yields at mid-rapidity were used to calculate the nuclear modification factor RAA in the interval 3 < pT < 18 GeV/c. The RAA shows a strong suppression compared to binary scaling of pp collisions at the same energy (up to a factor of 4) in the 10% most central Pb–Pb collisions. There is a centrality trend of suppression, and a weaker suppression (down to a factor of 2) in semi-peripheral (50–80%) collisions is observed. The suppression of electrons in this broad pT interval indicates that both charm and beauty quarks lose energy when they traverse the hot medium formed in Pb–Pb collisions at LHC.",
author = "{ALICE Collaboration} and J. Adam and D. Adamov{\'a} and Aggarwal, {M. M.} and {Aglieri Rinella}, G. and M. Agnello and N. Agrawal and Z. Ahammed and C. Bedda and Bertens, {R. A.} and C. Bianchin and S. Bjelogrlic and D. Caffarri and A. Caliva and M. Chojnacki and P. Christakoglou and T. Chujo and A. Dobrin and A. Dubla and L. Fabbietti and A. Grelli and Keijdener, {D. L.D.} and M. Kofarago and M. Krzewicki and Kuijer, {P. G.} and {La Pointe}, {S. L.} and F. Lehas and E. Leogrande and Lodato, {D. F.} and G. Luparello and J. Margutti and A. Mischke and N. Mohammadi and S. Muhuri and G. Nooren and {Oliveira Da Silva}, {A. C.} and T. Peitzmann and N. Poljak and S. Rajput and T. Richert and Sas, {M. H.P.} and G. Simatovic and Snellings, {R. J.M.} and D. Thomas and {Van Der Maarel}, J. and {van Leeuwen}, M. and Veen, {A. M.} and S. Vigolo and H. Wang and C. Zhang and Y. Zhou",
year = "2017",
month = may,
day = "29",
doi = "10.1016/j.physletb.2017.05.060",
language = "English",
volume = "771",
pages = "467--481",
journal = "Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics",
issn = "0370-2693",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}