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Issue Eur. Phys. J. C Volume 61, Number 4, June 2009 Hard Probes 2008 Page(s) 893 - 898 Section Regular Article - Experimental Physics DOI 10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0929-y Published online 05 March 2009

Eur. Phys. J. C 61, 893-898 (2009)
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-0929-y

Dilepton-tagged events at the LHC

Camelia Mironov¹, Ramona Vogt^{2, 3} and Gerd J. Kunde<sup>1

1</sup>  Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM, USA
²  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PO Box 808, Livermore, CA, USA
³  Physics Department, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA

camelia.mironov@cern.ch

Received 13 September 2008 / Revised version 16 December 2008 / Published online 5 March 2009

Abstract

We propose a new method for identifying and isolating events through semileptonic decays of the pair. Employing these decay dileptons to tag the jet in a specific kinematic region provides a clean signature of jets associated with heavy-quark production. The measurement, in both pp and heavy-ion collisions, is essential for addressing heavy-quark fragmentation in vacuum and in a dense medium. We present next-to-leading order calculations of production (leading order in production) in TeV pp collisions at the LHC and discuss the feasibility of the measurement in heavy-ion collisions at TeV.

PACS
13.87.Ce
24.85.+p
25.75.Cj
12.38.Qk

Correspondence: camelia.mironov@cern.ch


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