Effect of heavy-quark energy loss on the muon differential production cross section in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sN N) = 5.5 TeV

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics

Volumn 663, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 202-208

  Conesa del Valle, Z ^a   Dainese, A ^b   Ding, H T ^c   Martinez Garcia G ^a   Zhou, D C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b LABORATORI NAZIONALI DI LEGNARO   (Italy)

^c CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heavy quarks; Muons; Quark gluon plasma; Relativistic heavy ion collisions; Weak gauge bosons

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049151765     PISSN: 03702693     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2008.03.073     Document Type: Article

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