Beauty hadron production in high energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions in the EPOS4HQ framework

TL;DR

This paper extends the EPOS4HQ event generator to accurately model beauty hadron production in high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions, building on its success with charmed hadrons across RHIC to LHC energies.

Contribution

The paper introduces an extension of the EPOS4HQ framework to include beauty hadron production in various collision systems, enhancing its predictive capabilities.

Findings

EPOS4HQ successfully describes beauty hadron observables.

The model reproduces experimental data across different energies.

Predictions for future measurements are provided.

Abstract

Charmed hadron observables from the RHIC to LHC energies have been very successfully described with the recently advanced EPOS4HQ event generator. Here we extend this investigation to the production of beauty hadrons in proton-proton (pp) and heavy ion (HI) collisions