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Measuring beauty production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC via single electrons in ALICE

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We present the expected ALICE performance for the measurement of the p t-differential cross section of electrons from beauty decays in central Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC.

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Presented in the Poster Session “Future Experiments and Facilities” at the 18th International Conference “Quark Matter 2005”, Budapest, Hungary, 4–9 August 2005.

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Dainese, A., Antinori, F., Bombonati, C. et al. Measuring beauty production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC via single electrons in ALICE. Czech J Phys 55, 1631–1634 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10582-006-0050-5

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