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Measurement of charm and bottom production from semileptonic hadron decays in collisions at
Phys. Rev. D 99, 092003 – Published 13 May, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.092003
Abstract
Measurements of the differential production of electrons from open-heavy-flavor hadrons with charm- and bottom-quark content in collisions at are presented. The measurements proceed through displaced-vertex analyses of electron tracks from the semileptonic decay of charm and bottom hadrons using the PHENIX silicon-vertex detector. The relative contribution of electrons from bottom decays to inclusive heavy-flavor-electron production is found to be consistent with fixed-order-plus-next-to-leading-log perturbative-QCD calculations within experimental and theoretical uncertainties. These new measurements in collisions provide a precision baseline for comparable forthcoming measurements in collisions.
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