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ALICE perspectives for the study of charm and beauty energy loss at the LHC

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At LHC energy, heavy quarks will be abundantly produced and the design of the ALICE detector will allow us to study their production using several channels. The expected heavy-quark in-medium energy loss in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC is calculated within a model, that is compared to the available heavy-quark quenching measurements at RHIC. The nuclear modification factors and heavy-to-light ratios of charm and beauty mesons are considered. The capability of the ALICE experiment for addressing this phenomenology is discussed.

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Dainese, A. ALICE perspectives for the study of charm and beauty energy loss at the LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C 49, 135–141 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0118-1

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