Heavy-flavor production in LHC pp interactions using the ALICE detector

TL;DR

This paper reports on measurements of charm and beauty quark production in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies using the ALICE detector, providing data to test QCD and serve as references for heavy ion studies.

Contribution

It presents new measurements of heavy-flavor production in pp collisions at 2.76 and 7 TeV with the ALICE detector, highlighting its unique capabilities and comparison with other experiments.

Findings

Charm and beauty production cross sections measured

Results agree with perturbative QCD predictions

Provides reference data for heavy ion collision analysis

Abstract

Measurements of charm and beauty production in pp collisions, using the ALICE detector system, at LHC energies ($\sqrt{s} = 2.76$ and 7.0 TeV) can test perturbative QCD down to very low Bj\"{o}rken-x. They are also critical as a reference to ALICE's heavy ion program. The ALICE detector system allows measurements not covered by the other LHC experiments in addition to covering complementary regions. A description of the ALICE detector system, in relation to ATLAS and CMS, are presented. Results from both leptonic and hadronic decay channels will be shown along with comparisons to other measurements when available.