# Heavy flavour decay muon production at forward rapidity in proton--proton collisions at \sqrt(s) = 7 TeV

5 ALICE
IP2I Lyon - Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon
7 Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire
LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract : The production of muons from heavy flavour decays is measured at forward rapidity in proton--proton collisions at \sqrt(s) = 7 TeV collected with the ALICE experiment at the LHC. The analysis is carried out on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity L_{int} = 16.5 nb^{-1}. The transverse momentum and rapidity differential production cross sections of muons from heavy flavour decays are measured in the rapidity range 2.5 < y < 4, over the transverse momentum range 2 < p_{t} < 12 GeV/c. The results are compared to predictions based on perturbative QCD calculations.
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B. Abelev, N. Arbor, G. Conesa Balbastre, J. Faivre, C. Furget, et al.. Heavy flavour decay muon production at forward rapidity in proton--proton collisions at \sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. Physics Letters B, Elsevier, 2012, 708, pp.265-275. ⟨10.1016/j.physletb.2012.01.063⟩. ⟨in2p3-00661263⟩

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