Eur. Phys. J. C (2007) 49: 163-167
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0106-5

Regular Article – Experimental Physics

Study of the ALICE performance for the measurement of beauty via the electron decay channel

¹ University of Padova, 35122, Padova, Italy
² INFN Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131, Padova, Italy

^* e-mail: marcello.lunardon@pd.infn.it

Received: 3 August 2006
Published online: 16 November 2006

Abstract

We present a strategy for the detection of electrons coming from the semi-electronic decay of beauty particles generated in Pb–Pb and p–p collisions at LHC using the ALICE detector. The experiment’s performance for this measurement is evaluated in terms of accessible p_t range and expected uncertainties.