Charm and beauty production and hadronization with the ALICE experiment

TL;DR

This paper reports recent ALICE experiment results on charm and beauty production, including cross-sections, hadronization ratios, and nuclear modifications, providing insights into heavy-flavor dynamics in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions.

Contribution

It presents new measurements of heavy-flavor production and hadronization at unprecedented low momenta and compares these results with recent theoretical models.

Findings

Beauty jet cross-section in pp collisions measured.

Charmed baryon-to-meson ratios at low momenta observed.

Nuclear modification factor and flow of D0 mesons analyzed.

Abstract

This contribution summarizes a selection of recent results from the ALICE experiment. We show the cross-section of beauty jets in pp collisions, as well as the charmed baryon-to-meson production ratios, down to unprecedentedly low momenta, at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ and 13 TeV collision energies. We present the nuclear modification of ${\rm D}^0$-jets and the $v_2$ of non-prompt ${\rm D}^0$ in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV. We also discuss the implications and constraints from comparing these data to some of the most recent theoretical models.