Open heavy flavour nuclear modification factor in ALICE

Abstract

The ALICE experiment has measured charm and beauty production in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s) = 2.76 and 7 TeV and sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV, respectively, via the exclusive reconstruction of hadronic D meson decays and semi-leptonic D and B meson decays. In this contribution, recent results on the nuclear modification factor for open charmed mesons and heavy-flavour decay electrons at central rapidity and muons at forward rapidity are presented and discussed.

10 pages, 11 figures, Proceedings of the 50th International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio (Italy), 23-27 January 2012, accepted for publication in Proceedings of Science