Results on Heavy-Flavour Production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb Collisions with ALICE at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reports on measurements of heavy-flavour particle production in proton-proton, proton-lead, and lead-lead collisions at the LHC, providing insights into quark-gluon plasma properties and heavy-quark behavior.

Contribution

It presents new experimental results on heavy-flavour production in different collision systems at the LHC, using various decay channels and rapidity ranges.

Findings

Heavy-flavour yields vary with collision system and energy.

Results contribute to understanding quark-gluon plasma effects.

Data supports models of heavy-quark energy loss.

Abstract

The ALICE Collaboration has measured heavy-flavour production through the reconstruction of hadronic decays of D mesons at mid-rapidity and via semi-electronic (at mid-rapidity) and semi-muonic (at forward rapidity) decays of charm and beauty hadrons in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions. A summary of the most recent results from p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV is presented in this paper.