Production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 5.02 TeV
JHEP 1909 (2019) 008
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Abstract (data abstract)
'CERN-LHC. Production cross sections of muons from semi-leptonic decays of charm and beauty hadrons were measured at forward rapidity ($2.5 < y < 4$) in proton-proton (pp) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector at the CERN LHC. The results were obtained in an extended transverse momentum interval, $2 < p_{\rm T} < 20$ GeV/$c$, and with an improved precision compared to previous measurements performed in the same rapidity interval at centre-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ and $7$ TeV. The $p_{\rm T}$- and $y$-differential production cross sections as well as the $p_{\rm T}$-differential production cross section ratios between different centre-of-mass energies and different rapidity intervals are described, within experimental and theoretical uncertainties, by predictions based on perturbative QCD.'