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Report number arXiv:1405.4144 ; CERN-PH-EP-2014-089 ; CERN-PH-EP-2014-089
Title Beauty production in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 2.76 TeV measured via semi-electronic decays
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Abelev, Betty Bezverkhny (LLNL, Livermore) ; Adam, Jaroslav (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Adamova, Dagmar (Rez, Nucl. Phys. Inst.) ; Aggarwal, Madan Mohan (Panjab U.) ; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca (CERN) ; Agnello, Michelangelo (Turin Polytechnic ; INFN, Turin) ; Agostinelli, Andrea (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Agrawal, Neelima (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai) ; Ahammed, Zubayer (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ahmad, Nazeer (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahmed, Ijaz (COMSATS, Islamabad) ; Ahn, Sang Un (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Ahn, Sul-Ah (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Aimo, Ilaria (Turin Polytechnic ; INFN, Turin) ; Aiola, Salvatore (Yale U.) ; Ajaz, Muhammad (COMSATS, Islamabad) ; Akindinov, Alexander (Moscow, ITEP) ; Alam, Sk Noor (Calcutta, VECC) ; Aleksandrov, Dmitry (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Alessandro, Bruno (INFN, Turin) ; Alexandre, Didier (Birmingham U.) ; Alici, Andrea (INFN, Bologna ; Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome) ; Alkin, Anton (BITP, Kiev) ; Alme, Johan (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Alt, Torsten (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Altinpinar, Sedat (Bergen U.) ; Altsybeev, Igor (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Alves Garcia Prado, Caio (Sao Paulo U.) ; Andrei, Cristian (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Andronic, Anton (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Anguelov, Venelin (Heidelberg U.) ; Anielski, Jonas (Munster U.) ; Anticic, Tome (Boskovic Inst., Zagreb) ; Antinori, Federico (INFN, Padua) ; Antonioli, Pietro (INFN, Bologna) ; Aphecetche, Laurent Bernard (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Appelshaeuser, Harald (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Arcelli, Silvia (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Armesto Perez, Nestor (Santiago de Compostela U.) ; Arnaldi, Roberta (INFN, Turin) ; Aronsson, Tomas (Yale U.) ; Arsene, Ionut Cristian (Oslo U. ; Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Arslandok, Mesut (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Augustinus, Andre (CERN) ; Averbeck, Ralf Peter (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Awes, Terry (Oak Ridge) ; Azmi, Mohd Danish (Cape Town U. ; Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Bach, Matthias Jakob (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Badala, Angela (INFN, Catania) ; Baek, Yong Wook (Clermont-Ferrand U. ; Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Bagnasco, Stefano (INFN, Turin) ; Bailhache, Raphaelle Marie (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bala, Renu (Jammu U.) ; Baldisseri, Alberto (IRFU, Saclay) ; Baltasar Dos Santos Pedrosa, Fernando (CERN) ; Baral, Rama Chandra (Bhubaneswar, Inst. Phys.) ; Barbera, Roberto (INFN, Catania ; Catania U.) ; Barile, Francesco (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Barnafoldi, Gergely Gabor (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Barnby, Lee Stuart (Birmingham U.) ; Ramillien Barret, Valerie (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Bartke, Jerzy Gustaw (Cracow, INP) ; Basile, Maurizio (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Bastid, Nicole (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Basu, Sumit (Calcutta, VECC) ; Bathen, Bastian (Munster U.) ; Batigne, Guillaume (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Batista Camejo, Arianna (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Batyunya, Boris (Dubna, JINR) ; Batzing, Paul Christoph (Oslo U.) ; Baumann, Christoph Heinrich (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bearden, Ian Gardner (Bohr Inst.) ; Beck, Hans (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bedda, Cristina (Turin Polytechnic) ; Behera, Nirbhay Kumar (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai) ; Belikov, Iouri (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Bellini, Francesca (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Bellwied, Rene (Houston U.) ; Belmont Moreno, Ernesto (Mexico U.) ; Belmont Iii, Ronald John (Wayne State U.) ; Belyaev, Vladimir (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Bencedi, Gyula (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Beole, Stefania (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Berceanu, Ionela (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Bercuci, Alexandru (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Berdnikov, Yaroslav (St. Petersburg Polytechnic Inst. ; St. Petersburg, INP) ; Berenyi, Daniel (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Berger, Martin Emanuel (Tech. U., Munich (main)) ; Bertens, Redmer Alexander (Utrecht U.) ; Berzano, Dario (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Betev, Latchezar (CERN) ; Bhasin, Anju (Jammu U.) ; Bhat, Inayat Rasool (Jammu U.) ; Bhati, Ashok Kumar (Panjab U.) ; Bhattacharjee, Buddhadeb (Gauhati U.) ; Bhom, Jihyun (Tsukuba U.) ; Bianchi, Livio (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Bianchi, Nicola (Frascati) ; Bianchin, Chiara (Utrecht U.) ; Bielcik, Jaroslav (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Bielcikova, Jana (Rez, Nucl. Phys. Inst.) ; Bilandzic, Ante (Bohr Inst.) ; Bjelogrlic, Sandro (Utrecht U.) ; Blanco, Fernando (Madrid, CIEMAT) ; Blau, Dmitry (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Blume, Christoph (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bock, Friederike (Heidelberg U. ; LBL, Berkeley) ; Bogdanov, Alexey (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Boggild, Hans (Bohr Inst.) ; Bogolyubskiy, Mikhail (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Boehmer, Felix Valentin (Tech. U., Munich (main)) ; Boldizsar, Laszlo (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Bombara, Marek (Kosice U.) ; Book, Julian Heinz (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Borel, Herve (IRFU, Saclay) ; Borissov, Alexander (Pusan Natl. U. ; Wayne State U.) ; Bossu, Francesco (iThemba LABS) ; Botje, Michiel (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Botta, Elena (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Boettger, Stefan (Frankfurt U.) ; Braun-Munzinger, Peter (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Bregant, Marco (Sao Paulo U.) ; Breitner, Timo Gunther (Frankfurt U.) ; Broker, Theo Alexander (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Browning, Tyler Allen (Purdue U.) ; Broz, Michal (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Bruna, Elena (INFN, Turin) ; Bruno, Giuseppe Eugenio (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Budnikov, Dmitry (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; Buesching, Henner (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Bufalino, Stefania (INFN, Turin) ; Buncic, Predrag (CERN) ; Busch, Oliver (Heidelberg U.) ; Buthelezi, Edith Zinhle (iThemba LABS) ; Caffarri, Davide (INFN, Padua ; Padua U. ; CERN) ; Cai, Xu (Hua-Zhong Normal U.) ; Caines, Helen Louise (Yale U.) ; Calero Diaz, Liliet (Frascati) ; Caliva, Alberto (Utrecht U.) ; Calvo Villar, Ernesto (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) ; Camerini, Paolo (INFN, Trieste ; Trieste U.) ; Carena, Francesco (CERN) ; Carena, Wisla (CERN) ; Castillo Castellanos, Javier Ernesto (IRFU, Saclay) ; Casula, Ester Anna Rita (INFN, Cagliari ; Cagliari U.) ; Catanescu, Vasile Ioan (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Cavicchioli, Costanza (CERN) ; Ceballos Sanchez, Cesar (Havana, CEADEN) ; Cepila, Jan (Prague, Tech. U.) ; Cerello, Piergiorgio (INFN, Turin) ; Chang, Beomsu (Jyvaskyla U.) ; Chapeland, Sylvain (CERN) ; Charvet, Jean-Luc Fernand (IRFU, Saclay) ; Chattopadhyay, Subhasis (Calcutta, VECC) ; Chattopadhyay, Sukalyan (Saha Inst.) ; Chelnokov, Volodymyr (BITP, Kiev) ; Cherney, Michael Gerard (Creighton U.) ; Cheshkov, Cvetan Valeriev (Lyon U. ; Lyon, IPN) ; Cheynis, Brigitte (Lyon U. ; Lyon, IPN) ; Chibante Barroso, Vasco Miguel (CERN) ; Dobrigkeit Chinellato, David (Houston U. ; Campinas State U.) ; Chochula, Peter (CERN) ; Chojnacki, Marek (Bohr Inst.) ; Choudhury, Subikash (Calcutta, VECC) ; Christakoglou, Panagiotis (NIKHEF, Amsterdam) ; Christensen, Christian Holm (Bohr Inst.) ; Christiansen, Peter (Lund U.) ; Chujo, Tatsuya (Tsukuba U.) ; Chung, Suh-Urk (Pusan Natl. U.) ; Cicalo, Corrado (INFN, Cagliari) ; Cifarelli, Luisa (INFN, Bologna ; Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome ; Bologna U.) ; Cindolo, Federico (INFN, Bologna) ; Cleymans, Jean Willy Andre (Cape Town U.) ; Colamaria, Fabio Filippo (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Colella, Domenico (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Collu, Alberto (INFN, Cagliari ; Cagliari U.) ; Colocci, Manuel (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Conesa Balbastre, Gustavo (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Conesa Del Valle, Zaida (Orsay, IPN) ; Connors, Megan Elizabeth (Yale U.) ; Contreras Nuno, Jesus Guillermo (Prague, Tech. U. ; CINVESTAV, IPN) ; Cormier, Thomas Michael (Wayne State U. ; Oak Ridge) ; Corrales Morales, Yasser (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Cortese, Pietro (Piemonte Orientale U., Alessandria) ; Cortes Maldonado, Ismael (Puebla U., Mexico) ; Cosentino, Mauro Rogerio (Sao Paulo U.) ; Costa, Filippo (CERN) ; Crochet, Philippe (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Cruz Albino, Rigoberto (CINVESTAV, IPN) ; Cuautle Flores, Eleazar (Mexico U., ICN) ; Cunqueiro Mendez, Leticia (CERN ; Frascati) ; Dainese, Andrea (INFN, Padua) ; Dang, Ruina (Hua-Zhong Normal U.) ; Danu, Andrea (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Das, Debasish (Saha Inst.) ; Das, Indranil (Orsay, IPN) ; Das, Kushal (Saha Inst.) ; Das, Supriya (CAPSS, Kolkata ; Bose Inst., Kolkata) ; Dash, Ajay Kumar (Campinas State U.) ; Dash, Sadhana (Indian Inst. Tech., Mumbai) ; De, Sudipan (Calcutta, VECC) ; Delagrange, Hugues (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Deloff, Andrzej (Warsaw, Inst. Nucl. Studies) ; Denes, Ervin Sandor (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; D'Erasmo, Ginevra (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; De Caro, Annalisa (INFN, Salerno ; Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome ; Salerno U.) ; De Cataldo, Giacinto (INFN, Bari) ; De Cuveland, Jan (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; De Falco, Alessandro (INFN, Cagliari ; Cagliari U.) ; De Gruttola, Daniele (INFN, Salerno ; Enrico Fermi Ctr., Rome ; Salerno U.) ; De Marco, Nora (INFN, Turin) ; De Pasquale, Salvatore (INFN, Salerno ; Salerno U.) ; De Rooij, Raoul Stefan (Utrecht U.) ; Diaz Corchero, Miguel Angel (Madrid, CIEMAT) ; Dietel, Thomas (Cape Town U. ; Munster U.) ; Dillenseger, Pascal (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Divia, Roberto (CERN) ; Di Bari, Domenico (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Di Liberto, Sergio (INFN, Rome) ; Di Mauro, Antonio (CERN) ; Di Nezza, Pasquale (Frascati) ; Djuvsland, Oeystein (Bergen U.) ; Dobrin, Alexandru Florin (Utrecht U.) ; Dobrowolski, Tadeusz Antoni (Warsaw, Inst. Nucl. Studies) ; Domenicis Gimenez, Diogenes (Sao Paulo U.) ; Donigus, Benjamin (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Dordic, Olja (Oslo U.) ; Dorheim, Sverre (Tech. U., Munich (main)) ; Dubey, Anand Kumar (Calcutta, VECC) ; Dubla, Andrea (Utrecht U.) ; Ducroux, Laurent (Lyon U. ; Lyon, IPN) ; Dupieux, Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Dutt Mazumder, Abhee Kanti (Saha Inst.) ; Hilden, Timo Eero (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.) ; Ehlers Iii, Raymond James (Yale U.) ; Elia, Domenico (INFN, Bari) ; Engel, Heiko (Frankfurt U.) ; Erazmus, Barbara Ewa (SUBATECH, Nantes ; CERN) ; Erdal, Hege Austrheim (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Eschweiler, Dominic (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Espagnon, Bruno (Orsay, IPN) ; Esposito, Marco (CERN) ; Estienne, Magali Danielle (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Esumi, Shinichi (Tsukuba U.) ; Evans, David (Birmingham U.) ; Evdokimov, Sergey (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Fabris, Daniela (INFN, Padua) ; Faivre, Julien (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Falchieri, Davide (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Fantoni, Alessandra (Frascati) ; Fasel, Markus (Heidelberg U.) ; Fehlker, Dominik (Bergen U.) ; Feldkamp, Linus (Munster U.) ; Felea, Daniel (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Feliciello, Alessandro (INFN, Turin) ; Feofilov, Grigory (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Ferencei, Jozef (Rez, Nucl. Phys. Inst.) ; Fernandez Tellez, Arturo (Puebla U., Mexico) ; Gonzalez Ferreiro, Elena (Santiago de Compostela U.) ; Ferretti, Alessandro (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Festanti, Andrea (INFN, Padua ; Padua U.) ; Figiel, Jan (Cracow, INP) ; Araujo Silva Figueredo, Marcel (Liverpool U.) ; Filchagin, Sergey (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; Finogeev, Dmitry (Moscow, INR) ; Fionda, Fiorella (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Fiore, Enrichetta Maria (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Floratos, Emmanouil (Athens U.) ; Floris, Michele (CERN) ; Foertsch, Siegfried Valentin (iThemba LABS) ; Foka, Panagiota (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Fokin, Sergey (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Fragiacomo, Enrico (INFN, Trieste) ; Francescon, Andrea (INFN, Padua ; Padua U. ; CERN) ; Frankenfeld, Ulrich Michael (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Fuchs, Ulrich (CERN) ; Furget, Christophe (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Fusco Girard, Mario (INFN, Salerno ; Salerno U.) ; Gaardhoeje, Jens Joergen (Bohr Inst.) ; Gagliardi, Martino (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Gago Medina, Alberto Martin (Lima, Pont. U. Catolica) ; Gallio, Mauro (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Gangadharan, Dhevan Raja (LBL, Berkeley ; Ohio State U.) ; Ganoti, Paraskevi (Athens U. ; Oak Ridge) ; Gao, Chaosong (Hua-Zhong Normal U.) ; Garabatos Cuadrado, Jose (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Garcia-Solis, Edmundo Javier (Chicago State U.) ; Gargiulo, Corrado (CERN) ; Garishvili, Irakli (LLNL, Livermore) ; Gerhard, Jochen (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Germain, Marie (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Gheata, Andrei George (CERN) ; Gheata, Mihaela (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science ; CERN) ; Ghidini, Bruno (INFN, Bari ; Bari U.) ; Ghosh, Premomoy (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ghosh, Sanjay Kumar (CAPSS, Kolkata ; Bose Inst., Kolkata) ; Gianotti, Paola (Frascati) ; Giubellino, Paolo (CERN) ; Gladysz-Dziadus, Ewa (Cracow, INP) ; Glassel, Peter (Heidelberg U.) ; Gomez Ramirez, Andres (Frankfurt U.) ; Gonzalez Zamora, Pedro (Madrid, CIEMAT) ; Gorbunov, Sergey (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Gorlich, Lidia Maria (Cracow, INP) ; Gotovac, Sven (Split Tech. U.) ; Graczykowski, Lukasz Kamil (Warsaw U. of Tech.) ; Grelli, Alessandro (Utrecht U.) ; Grigoras, Alina Gabriela (CERN) ; Grigoras, Costin (CERN) ; Grigoryev, Vladislav (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Grigoryan, Ara (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) ; Grigoryan, Smbat (Dubna, JINR) ; Grynyov, Borys (BITP, Kiev) ; Grion, Nevio (INFN, Trieste) ; Grosse-Oetringhaus, Jan Fiete (CERN) ; Grossiord, Jean-Yves (Lyon U. ; Lyon, IPN) ; Grosso, Raffaele (CERN) ; Guber, Fedor (Moscow, INR) ; Guernane, Rachid (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Guerzoni, Barbara (INFN, Bologna ; Bologna U.) ; Guilbaud, Maxime Rene Joseph (Lyon U. ; Lyon, IPN) ; Gulbrandsen, Kristjan Herlache (Bohr Inst.) ; Gulkanyan, Hrant (Yerevan Phys. Inst.) ; Gumbo, Mervyn (Cape Town U.) ; Gunji, Taku (Tokyo U.) ; Gupta, Anik (Jammu U.) ; Gupta, Ramni (Jammu U.) ; Khan, Kamal (COMSATS, Islamabad) ; Haake, Rudiger (Munster U.) ; Haaland, Oystein Senneset (Bergen U.) ; Hadjidakis, Cynthia Marie (Orsay, IPN) ; Haiduc, Maria (Bucharest, Inst. Space Science) ; Hamagaki, Hideki (Tokyo U.) ; Hamar, Gergoe (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Hanratty, Luke David (Birmingham U.) ; Hansen, Alexander (Bohr Inst.) ; Harris, John William (Yale U.) ; Hartmann, Helvi (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Harton, Austin Vincent (Chicago State U.) ; Hatzifotiadou, Despina (INFN, Bologna) ; Hayashi, Shinichi (Tokyo U.) ; Heckel, Stefan Thomas (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Heide, Markus Ansgar (Munster U.) ; Helstrup, Haavard (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Herghelegiu, Andrei Ionut (Bucharest, IFIN-HH) ; Herrera Corral, Gerardo Antonio (CINVESTAV, IPN) ; Hess, Benjamin Andreas (Tubingen U.) ; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Hippolyte, Boris (Strasbourg, IPHC) ; Hladky, Jan (Prague, Inst. Phys.) ; Hristov, Peter Zahariev (CERN) ; Huang, Meidana (Bergen U.) ; Humanic, Thomas (Ohio State U.) ; Hussain, Nur (Gauhati U.) ; Hutter, Dirk (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Hwang, Dae Sung (Sejong U.) ; Ilkaev, Radiy (RFNC-VNIIEF, Sarov) ; Ilkiv, Iryna (Warsaw, Inst. Nucl. Studies) ; Inaba, Motoi (Tsukuba U.) ; Innocenti, Gian Michele (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Ionita, Costin (CERN) ; Ippolitov, Mikhail (Kurchatov Inst., Moscow) ; Irfan, Muhammad (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ivanov, Marian (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Ivanov, Vladimir (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Jacholkowski, Adam Wlodzimierz (INFN, Catania ; Catania U.) ; Jacobs, Peter Martin (LBL, Berkeley) ; Jahnke, Cristiane (Sao Paulo U.) ; Jang, Haeng Jin (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Janik, Malgorzata Anna (Warsaw U. of Tech.) ; Pahula Hewage, Sandun (Houston U.) ; Jena, Chitrasen (INFN, Padua ; Padua U.) ; Jena, Satyajit (Houston U.) ; Jimenez Bustamante, Raul Tonatiuh (Mexico U., ICN) ; Jones, Peter Graham (Birmingham U.) ; Jung, Hyungtaik (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Jusko, Anton (Birmingham U.) ; Kadyshevskiy, Vladimir (Dubna, JINR) ; Kalcher, Sebastian (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kalinak, Peter (Kosice, IEF) ; Kalweit, Alexander Philipp (CERN) ; Kamin, Jason Adrian (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Kang, Ju Hwan (Yonsei U.) ; Kaplin, Vladimir (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Kar, Somnath (Calcutta, VECC) ; Karasu Uysal, Ayben (Karatay U.) ; Karavichev, Oleg (Moscow, INR) ; Karavicheva, Tatiana (Moscow, INR) ; Karpechev, Evgeny (Moscow, INR) ; Kebschull, Udo Wolfgang (Frankfurt U.) ; Keidel, Ralf (Fachhochsch., Worms) ; Keijdener, Darius Laurens (Utrecht U.) ; Khan, Mohammed Mohisin (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Khan, Palash (Saha Inst.) ; Khan, Shuaib Ahmad (Calcutta, VECC) ; Khanzadeev, Alexei (St. Petersburg, INP) ; Kharlov, Yury (Serpukhov, IHEP) ; Kileng, Bjarte (Bergen Coll. Higher Educ.) ; Kim, Beomkyu (Yonsei U.) ; Kim, Do Won (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U. ; KISTI, Daejeon) ; Kim, Dong Jo (Jyvaskyla U.) ; Kim, Jinsook (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Kim, Mimae (Gangneung-Wonju Natl. U.) ; Kim, Minwoo (Yonsei U.) ; Kim, Se Yong (Sejong U.) ; Kim, Taesoo (Yonsei U.) ; Kirsch, Stefan (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kisel, Ivan (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kiselev, Sergey (Moscow, ITEP) ; Kisiel, Adam Ryszard (Warsaw U. of Tech.) ; Kiss, Gabor (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Klay, Jennifer Lynn (Cal. Poly.) ; Klein, Jochen (Heidelberg U.) ; Klein-Boesing, Christian (Munster U.) ; Kluge, Alexander (CERN) ; Knichel, Michael Linus (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Knospe, Anders Garritt (Texas U.) ; Kobdaj, Chinorat (CERN ; Suranaree U. of Tech.) ; Kofarago, Monika (CERN) ; Kohler, Markus Konrad (Darmstadt, EMMI) ; Kollegger, Thorsten (Frankfurt U., FIAS) ; Kolozhvari, Anatoly (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Kondratev, Valerii (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Kondratyeva, Natalia (Moscow Phys. Eng. Inst.) ; Konevskikh, Artem (Moscow, INR) ; Kovalenko, Vladimir (St. Petersburg State U.) ; Kowalski, Marek (Cracow, INP) ; Kox, Serge (LPSC, Grenoble) ; Koyithatta Meethaleveedu, Greeshma (Indian Inst. 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Inst.) ; Kweon, Min Jung (Heidelberg U. ; Inha U.) ; Kwon, Youngil (Yonsei U.) ; Ladron De Guevara, Pedro (Mexico U., ICN) ; Lagana Fernandes, Caio (Sao Paulo U.) ; Lakomov, Igor (Orsay, IPN) ; Langoy, Rune (Vestfold U. Coll., Tonsberg) ; Lara Martinez, Camilo Ernesto (Frankfurt U.) ; Lardeux, Antoine Xavier (SUBATECH, Nantes) ; Lattuca, Alessandra (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; La Pointe, Sarah Louise (INFN, Turin ; Utrecht U.) ; La Rocca, Paola (INFN, Catania ; Catania U.) ; Lea, Ramona (INFN, Trieste ; Trieste U.) ; Leardini, Lucia (Heidelberg U.) ; Lee, Graham Richard (Birmingham U.) ; Legrand, Iosif (CERN) ; Lehnert, Joerg Walter (Frankfurt U., Inst. Kernphys.) ; Lemmon, Roy Crawford (Daresbury) ; Lenti, Vito (INFN, Bari) ; Leogrande, Emilia (Utrecht U.) ; Leoncino, Marco (INFN, Turin ; Turin U.) ; Leon Monzon, Ildefonso (Sinaloa U.) ; Levai, Peter (Wigner RCP, Budapest) ; Li, Shuang (Clermont-Ferrand U. ; Hua-Zhong Normal U.) ; Lien, Jorgen Andre (Vestfold U. 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Publication 2014-11-10
Imprint 16 May 2014
Number of pages 12
Note Comments: 18 pages, 2 captioned figures, 3 tables, authors from page 13 to page 18
21 pages, 6 captioned figures, 2 tables, authors from page 16, published version, figures at http://aliceinfo.cern.ch/ArtSubmission/node/1724
In: Phys. Lett. B 738 (2014) 97-108
DOI 10.1016/j.physletb.2014.09.026
Subject category Nuclear Physics - Experiment ; Particle Physics - Experiment
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN LHC ; ALICE
Free keywords QCD ; heavy quark production ; experimental results ; heavy-flavour production ; beauty production
Abstract The ALICE collaboration at the LHC reports measurement of the inclusive production cross section of electrons from semi-leptonic decays of beauty hadrons with rapidity $|y|<0.8$ and transverse momentum $1<p_{\mathrm{T}}<10$ GeV/$c$, in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = $ 2.76 TeV. Electrons not originating from semi-electronic decay of beauty hadrons are suppressed using the impact parameter of the corresponding tracks. The production cross section of beauty decay electrons is compared to the result obtained with an alternative method which uses the distribution of the azimuthal angle between heavy-flavour decay electrons and charged hadrons. Perturbative QCD calculations agree with the measured cross section within the experimental and theoretical uncertainties. The integrated visible cross section, $\sigma_{\mathrm{b} \rightarrow \mathrm{e}} = 3.47\pm0.40(\mathrm{stat})^{+1.12}_{-1.33}(\mathrm{sys})\pm0.07(\mathrm{norm}) \mu$b, was extrapolated to full phase space using Fixed Order plus Next-to-Leading Log (FONLL) predictions to obtain the total b$\bar{\mathrm{b}}$ production cross section, $\sigma_{\mathrm{b\bar{b}}} = 130\pm15.1(\mathrm{stat})^{+42.1}_{-49.8}(\mathrm{sys})^{+3.4}_{-3.1}(\mathrm{extr})\pm2.5(\mathrm{norm})\pm4.4(\mathrm{BR}) \mu$b.
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