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A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE
A Feasibility Study for Electron-Muon Correlations at ALICE Nina Nathanson, February 2024 This analysis aims to assess the feasibility of using e-μ pairs as an alternative dilepton probe for heavy quark studies in proton-proton collisions. The e-μ channel would provide a much cleaner/low background...
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| description | A Feasibility Study for Electron-Muon Correlations at ALICE Nina Nathanson, February 2024 This analysis aims to assess the feasibility of using e-μ pairs as an alternative dilepton probe for heavy quark studies in proton-proton collisions. The e-μ channel would provide a much cleaner/low background signal than other currently-utilized probing methods, but it is statistics-limited, a re-striction which is of increased concern at ALICE due to the detector's geometry. With the use of Pythia simulations, the viability of undertaking an analysis of the channel using ALICE p-p data from LHC Run 3 is considered. The analysis finds that it is feasible to undertake a data study of the e-μ pairs and presents an estimate of the expected signal in a year of Run 3 data. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/41850 A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE Nathanson, Nina Dietel, Thomas Buthelezi, Zinhle Fortsch, Siegfried Electron-muon ALICE A Feasibility Study for Electron-Muon Correlations at ALICE Nina Nathanson, February 2024 This analysis aims to assess the feasibility of using e-μ pairs as an alternative dilepton probe for heavy quark studies in proton-proton collisions. The e-μ channel would provide a much cleaner/low background signal than other currently-utilized probing methods, but it is statistics-limited, a re-striction which is of increased concern at ALICE due to the detector's geometry. With the use of Pythia simulations, the viability of undertaking an analysis of the channel using ALICE p-p data from LHC Run 3 is considered. The analysis finds that it is feasible to undertake a data study of the e-μ pairs and presents an estimate of the expected signal in a year of Run 3 data. 2025-09-18T09:39:15Z 2025-09-18T09:39:15Z 2025 2025-09-18T07:33:37Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41850 en eng application/pdf Department of Physics Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Electron-muon ALICE Nathanson, Nina A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE |
| title_full | A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE |
| title_fullStr | A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE |
| title_full_unstemmed | A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE |
| title_short | A feasibility study for electron-muon correlations at ALICE |
| title_sort | feasibility study for electron muon correlations at alice |
| topic | Electron-muon ALICE |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41850 |
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