FIRST LOOK AT BEAUTY AND BEAUTY-JET TAGGING VIA SECONDARY VERTEXING WITH ALICE IN p+p COLLISIONS AT $\sqrt{S} = 7\,\, \rm{TeV}$

Abstract

The heavy flavour single electron data from RHIC indicate strong coupling of heavy quarks to the medium. The LHC extends greatly the kinematic range to high transverse momentum which enables new tests of heavy quark jet dynamics. Jets containing beauty hadrons have distinctive properties from other types of jets, which enhance their clear identification. We first introduce a method to preferentially select electrons from beauty hadron decay by reconstructing secondary vertices and show the results of this approach on simulated data. A preliminary look at the heavy flavour electron analysis and the beauty analysis in p + p collisions at [Formula: see text] is also presented.