Medium-induced modification of azimuthal correlations of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays with charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}} = 5.02}$ TeV

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Medium-induced modification of azimuthal correlations of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays with charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}} = 5.02}$ TeV

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Pith's one-line read This first measurement of azimuthal correlations with heavy-flavor triggers in Pb-Pb collisions reports a hint of near-side enhancement at low momentum and a significant away-side suppression at high momentum.

desk verdict First Pb–Pb HF-decay electron–hadron correlations, carefully done; the flow baseline's muon-for-electron v_n proxy is the one real soft spot, not fatal. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.13197 v1 pith:TK7Q6D4D submitted 2025-07-17 nucl-ex hep-ex

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classification nucl-exhep-ex PACS 25.75.-q

keywords heavy-flavorelectronsazimuthalcorrelationsPb-Pbcollisionsquark-gluonplasmajetquenchingper-triggernuclearmodificationfactoranisotropicflowbaselineheavy-quarkenergyloss

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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper reports the first azimuthal-correlation measurement in the heavy-flavor sector of lead-lead collisions, correlating electrons from charm- and beauty-hadron decays with charged particles. It aims to establish how the quark-gluon plasma modifies the particle content of jets initiated by heavy quarks, using the per-trigger nuclear modification factor $I_{\rm AA}$ as the comparison to proton-proton data. The central result is a pattern: in central collisions the near side shows a hint of extra low-momentum particles below 3 GeV/$c$, while the away side shows suppressed yields above 4 GeV/$c$, with no resolved difference from light-flavor or strange triggers. A fair reader would care because heavy quarks are expected to lose less energy than light quarks in the plasma, so this measurement tests mass-dependent jet quenching with a new observable.

What carries the argument

The central object is the background-subtracted two-particle azimuthal-correlation distribution $S(\Delta\phi)$ between trigger electrons and associated charged particles. It is built from a same-event distribution corrected by event mixing, with hadron contamination and electron pairs from photon conversions and Dalitz decays subtracted statistically, and with the uncorrelated-pair contribution described by a flow-modulated baseline $B(\Delta\phi)=b(1+2\sum_n v_n^{c,b\to e} v_n^{\rm assoc} \cos(n\Delta\phi))$. A von Mises function models the near-side peak; after baseline subtraction, per-trigger yields are integrated in fixed $\Delta\phi$ windows and divided by the corresponding pp yields to form $I_{\rm AA}$. The load-bearing element is the baseline, whose $v_n$ coefficients come from muon measurements of heavy-flavor flow instead of electron measurements.

What would settle it

Measure $v_2$ and $v_3$ of inclusive electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in the same $4<p_{\rm T}<16$ GeV/$c$ electron range and 0-10% and 30-50% centrality bins, recompute the baseline with those values, and check whether the near-side $I_{\rm AA}$ below 3 GeV/$c$ and away-side $I_{\rm AA}$ above 4 GeV/$c$ move beyond the quoted baseline uncertainties; if they do, the reported modification pattern is an artifact of the muon-flow proxy.

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Core claim

The discovery claim is that, for the first time at LHC energies, the azimuthal correlation between a heavy-flavor decay electron ($4 < p_{\rm T}^{\rm e} < 16$ GeV/$c$) and associated charged particles ($1 < p_{\rm T}^{\rm assoc} < 7$ GeV/$c$) is measurably modified in Pb-Pb collisions relative to pp. In 0-10% central collisions, the per-trigger $I_{\rm AA}$ on the near side is consistent with unity above 3 GeV/$c$ but shows a 1.27$\,\sigma$ hint of enhancement below 3 GeV/$c$, while on the away side it falls to about 0.5 for associated particles above 4 GeV/$c$, a 2.5$\,\sigma$ suppression. In 30-50% central collisions the same trends appear with larger uncertainties. The authors interpret the near-side hint as possible medium excitation or extra gluon radiation and the away-side suppression as energy loss of the recoiling parton, and they find the heavy-flavor $I_{\rm AA}$ consistent with dihadron and $K^0_{\rm S}$ triggers, so no mass dependence is visible within current precision.

Load-bearing premise

The calculation that removes uncorrelated background pairs relies on a "flow" pedestal whose amplitude is taken from measurements of muons rather than electrons; if electrons flow differently in these momentum and centrality ranges, the reported peak yields and $I_{\rm AA}$ shifts.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

Heavy-flavor jets in central Pb-Pb collisions appear to gain soft ($p_{\rm T}<3$ GeV/$c$) particles on the near side relative to pp, consistent with medium response or induced radiation adding low-momentum fragments.
Away-side particles above 4 GeV/$c$ are suppressed to about half the pp rate, implying substantial energy loss by the recoiling parton and a modified shower at large angles.
The similarity of $I_{\rm AA}$ for heavy-flavor, inclusive-hadron, and strange triggers means that, at these transverse momenta, the per-trigger modification of associated yields does not resolve a quark-mass dependence.
The measured per-trigger yields and $I_{\rm AA}$ values in the kinematic bins give new constraints for theoretical calculations of heavy-quark transport and medium-induced parton-shower modification.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The near-side enhancement hint, if confirmed, would be evidence that the quark-gluon plasma responds to the passing heavy-quark jet by emitting soft particles, not just that the heavy quark itself loses energy.
The use of muon flow as a proxy for electron flow is the most fragile step: a dedicated measurement of $v_2$ and $v_3$ for electrons from heavy-flavor decays in the same $p_{\rm T}$ and centrality bins could either strengthen or erase the 1.27$\,\sigma$ near-side enhancement.
A natural extension would be to repeat this analysis with D-meson triggers in higher-statistics data, where the charm quark is tagged directly, and to compare charm and beauty contributions separately at low associated $p_{\rm T}$.

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Desk Editor's Note

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Bottom line: this is the first Pb–Pb measurement of azimuthal correlations with heavy-flavor decay electrons, and the first per-trigger I_AA for that trigger at LHC energies. That is a genuinely new data point for the heavy-quark energy-loss discussion. The analysis follows the pp/p–Pb paper, which is fine; the new part is the heavy-ion execution, and it is careful. The paper is appropriately hedged: the near-side enhancement is called a 1.27 sigma hint, the away-side suppression a 2.5 sigma effect, and the I_AA comparison to light-flavor triggers is explicitly consistent within uncertainties.

The measurement itself—electron identification, the ULS–LS subtraction with scaled LS distributions, mixed-event corrections, and the systematic breakdown—looks sound. Credit where due: the LS scale factors are data-driven and given explicitly, the tagging-efficiency systematics are estimated, and the correlated/uncorrelated systematic split is sensible. The central first-measurement claim is not in question.

The soft spot is the flow baseline in Eq. 4. The v_n for the trigger side is taken from ATLAS muon measurements, not from electrons, and the semicentral bin used here is 30–50% while the ATLAS values are for 0–10% and 30–40%. The paper says varying v_n by ±sigma_vn has a negligible effect; that is true for the published uncertainty, but it does not cover the muon-to-electron proxy error or the centrality mismatch. The stress-test note does the arithmetic: at 1 < pT < 2 GeV/c the pedestal is about 103 rad^-1, and a 10% change in v2^e moves the near-side yield by an amount comparable to its baseline systematic. So the quantitative I_AA values, especially at low associated pT, carry an unquantified systematic. That should be stated openly, not hidden. It does not kill the result, because the main qualitative statements—away-side suppression at high pT and NS enhancement as a hint—are consistent with the direction of the shift, but the central values in Figs. 4 and 5 should be read with that caveat in mind.

Other points are minor: the AS yields in several bins are consistent with zero and reported as upper limits, which is honest but limits constraining power; the comparison with light-flavor triggers uses different trigger pT intervals and the authors note the kinematic caveat.

Who is this for: heavy-ion experimentalists and theorists using jet-hadron correlations to constrain heavy-quark energy loss and medium response. It deserves a serious referee. I would accept for review, and I would recommend publication after the authors add an explicit assessment of the muon-proxy and centrality-mismatch systematics.

Referee Report

2 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper reports the first measurement of azimuthal correlations between electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays and charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.02 TeV, for the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality classes. The analysis covers trigger electrons with 4 < pT^e < 12 GeV/c (with split intervals 4-7 and 7-16 GeV/c) and associated charged particles with 1 < pT^assoc < 7 GeV/c, using the ALICE detector. After event-mixing corrections, hadron-contamination subtraction, and LS/ULS subtraction of electrons from photon conversions and Dalitz decays, the correlation distributions are fitted with a von Mises near-side peak plus a flow-modulated baseline whose v_n coefficients are taken from external ATLAS and ALICE measurements. The results are compared with the corresponding pp measurement, and per-trigger near-side and away-side yields are used to compute I_AA. In 0-10% central collisions the authors report a 1.27-sigma hint of near-side enhancement for pT^assoc < 3 GeV/c and a 2.5-sigma away-side suppression for pT^assoc > 4 GeV/c, while the heavy-flavor I_AA is found to be consistent with light-flavor and strange-particle triggers within uncertainties.

Significance. If the results are correct, this is a genuinely new observable: the first LHC measurement of azimuthal correlations triggered by a particle from the heavy-flavor sector in Pb-Pb collisions. The paper is careful in its treatment of the dominant background sources, uses a mixed-event correction, separates correlated and uncorrelated systematics, and presents upper limits where away-side yields are consistent with zero. The claims are appropriately hedged, and the comparison with pp collisions and with light-flavor triggers provides useful empirical constraints on medium-modified heavy-flavor jet fragmentation. The main quantitative weaknesses are the unquantified use of muon v_n as a proxy for electron v_n in the flow baseline and the data-driven LS normalization scale factors in the photonic-electron subtraction, both of which directly affect the reported yields and I_AA values.

major comments (2)

[Section 3.4, Eq. (4); Section 4; Table 2] The flow baseline uses v_n for electrons from heavy-flavor decays that are fixed to ATLAS measurements for muons from heavy-flavor decays [85] in the 0-10% and 30-40% centrality classes, whereas the present semicentral class is 30-50%, and the v_n values are averaged using the muon pT spectrum [49] rather than the electron pT spectrum. Section 4 propagates only the quoted uncertainty +/- sigma_vn of these external values and reports it to be negligible, but the muon-to-electron proxy error and the centrality mismatch are not propagated. This is numerically material: for 4 < pT^e < 12 GeV/c and 1 < pT^assoc < 2 GeV/c in 0-10% central collisions, the pedestal is b = 103.0 rad^-1 (Table 2) and the flow-modulation product 2 b v_2^e v_2^assoc is of the same order as the near-side yield of 0.953 +/- 0.154. A relative error of about 10% in v_2^e would shift the near-side yield by an amount comparable to its baseline systematic, and the quoted 1.27-sigma enhancement and 2.5-sigma away-side suppression would move accordingly. The authors should add a quantitative systematic for the muon-to-electron proxy and the centrality mismatch, or explicitly restrict the conclusions to a level that is robust under such a shift.
[Section 3.3, Eq. (2); Section 4] The LS normalization scale factors (1.045, 1.038, and 1.114 for the three trigger-electron pT intervals) are data-driven constants used to match the like-sign invariant-mass distribution to the unlike-sign distribution in a sideband, yet Section 4 does not report a systematic variation of these scale factors. The background-electron correction enters Eq. (2) linearly through (S_ULS - S_LS)/epsilon_tag; an uncertainty on the scale factor directly shifts the subtracted photonic component and therefore the per-trigger yields and I_AA. The 5% (3%) 'background electron' systematic is obtained by varying partner-track selections and the invariant-mass window, which does not necessarily cover the sideband-normalization uncertainty. Please add a variation of the LS scale factors, or an equivalent closure test, to the systematic budget.

minor comments (5)

[References, Introduction] Reference [14] appears to be an unrelated cosmology paper (Horava-Lifshitz early universe phase transition) and should be replaced with a suitable reference for the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma.
[Figures 4 and 5] The captions should state explicitly that the 30-50% data points are displaced horizontally by 0.2 GeV/c for visibility; currently the displacement appears only inside the figure labels.
[Section 5.2] Please specify how the quoted significances (1.27 sigma for the near-side enhancement and 2.5 sigma for the away-side suppression) are computed, in particular whether they combine several pT bins and how correlated systematics are treated; this would make the claims reproducible from the plotted values.
[Equation (1) and surrounding text] The notation for the mixed-event normalization is inconsistent: the text uses both 'beta_ME' and 'beta' for the normalization factor; please define it once and use a single symbol throughout.
[Section 3.4] The statement that higher-order flow coefficients (n >= 4) give a negligible contribution to B(Delta phi) would benefit from a quantitative estimate, since this assumption is part of the baseline model and is not tested against data.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the I_AA ratio rests on external pp data and fixed flow coefficients, with no fitted quantity renamed as a prediction.

full rationale

The paper's central quantitative claims are the per-trigger yields and I_AA values after subtracting the baseline B(Delta phi) of Eq. 4. The flow coefficients entering B are taken from published ATLAS and ALICE measurements (Refs. [85] and [86]) and are fixed in the fit, not fitted to the Pb-Pb correlation data being reported. The ATLAS muon proxy for electron flow is an external input with a possible systematic bias, but it is not a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction, so it does not constitute circularity. The pedestal parameter b is free in the fit, but it is a nuisance background normalization, not presented as a physics result. The I_AA denominator is the previously published pp measurement of Ref. [11], which is independent of the Pb-Pb yields measured here. The analysis procedure largely follows Ref. [11], and the von Mises peak shape and baseline form are standard modeling choices; neither is derived from the claimed near-side enhancement or away-side suppression. There is no uniqueness theorem imported from the authors, no self-citation chain that forces the result, and no renaming of a known empirical pattern. The self-citations that appear are procedural or provide external benchmark data, and they are not load-bearing in a circular sense. The derivation is therefore self-contained with respect to the circularity patterns considered.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new particles, forces, or conserved quantities are introduced. The analysis relies on standard QCD jet-correlation phenomenology and on several data-driven corrections, listed above.

free parameters (3)

LS normalization scale factor (4 < pT_e < 12 GeV/c) = 1.045
Sec. 3.3: like-sign invariant-mass distribution scaled to match unlike-sign in the 0.2-0.25 GeV/c^2 sideband in Pb-Pb; affects background electron subtraction and thus yields.
LS normalization scale factor (4 < pT_e < 7 GeV/c) = 1.038
Sec. 3.3: same sideband matching for the lower trigger pT interval.
LS normalization scale factor (7 < pT_e < 16 GeV/c) = 1.114
Sec. 3.3: same sideband matching for the higher trigger pT interval.

assumptions (4)

domain assumption The uncorrelated-pair background plus anisotropic flow is described by B(Delta phi) = b(1 + 2 sum_{n=2,3} v_n^{c,b->e} v_n^{assoc} cos(n Delta phi)), with n>=4 negligible.
Sec. 3.4; if higher harmonics or non-cosinusoidal flow contribute, baseline subtraction is biased.
domain assumption Electron v_n from heavy-flavor decays can be replaced by ATLAS muon v_n from heavy-flavor decays.
Sec. 3.4; explicit substitution due to the lack of electron measurements; the systematic effect on the baseline is reported as negligible compared to the pedestal uncertainty, but not directly validated.
domain assumption The pp measurement of Ref. [11] is an appropriate reference for I_AA when the same pT-ordering requirement and integration windows are applied.
Sec. 5.2; if the trigger-associated pT ordering bias differs between pp and Pb-Pb because of energy loss, the I_AA interpretation changes.
domain assumption Background electrons from photon conversions and Dalitz decays are removed via ULS-LS subtraction with a partner-tagging efficiency from HIJING+GEANT3, with LS normalized by a constant scale factor.
Sec. 3.3; if the scale factor is pT-dependent or the tagging efficiency is mismodeled, the subtracted yields are biased.

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abstract

The azimuthal-correlation distributions between electrons from the decays of heavy-flavor hadrons and associated charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV are reported for the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality classes. This is the first measurement to provide access to the azimuthal-correlation observables in the heavy-flavor sector in Pb-Pb collisions. The analysis is performed for trigger electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays with transverse momentum $4 < p_{\rm T}^{\rm e} < 16$ GeV/$c$, considering associated particles within the transverse-momentum range $1 < p_{\rm T}^{\rm assoc} < 7$ GeV/$c$, and a pseudorapidity difference of $|\Delta\eta| < 1$ between the trigger electron and associated particles. The per-trigger nuclear modification factor ($I_{\rm AA}$) is calculated to compare the near- and away-side peak yields to those in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 5.02$ TeV. In 0-10% central collisions, the $I_{\rm AA}$ indicates a hint of enhancement of associated-particle yields with $p_{\rm T} < 3$ GeV/$c$ on the near side, and a suppression of yields with $p_{\rm T} > 4$ GeV/$c$ on the away side. The $I_{\rm AA}$ for electron triggers from heavy-flavor hadron decays is compared with that for light-flavor and strange-particle triggers to investigate the dependence on different fragmentation processes and parton-medium dynamics, and is found to be the same within uncertainties.

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**Figure 1.** Azimuthal-correlation distributions of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays and charged particles before baseline subtraction for 4 < p e T < 12 GeV/c and different associated pT intervals, for the central (0–10%, top panels) and semicentral (30–50%, bottom panels) Pb–Pb collisions at √ sNN = 5.02 TeV. The distributions are fitted with a von Mises function to describe the NS peak (solid gray line) and a baselin… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Comparison of the azimuthal-correlation distributions of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays and charged particles measured in the 0–10% centrality class Pb–Pb collisions and in pp collisions [11], after the baseline subtraction, for 4 < p e T < 12 GeV/c and different associated pT intervals. The statistical (uncorrelated systematic) uncertainties are shown as vertical lines (filled boxes). The uncertainties o… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Comparison of the azimuthal-correlation distributions of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays and charged particles measured in the 30–50% centrality class Pb–Pb collisions and in pp collisions [11], after the baseline subtraction, for 4 < p e T < 12 GeV/c and different associated pT intervals. The statistical (uncorrelated systematic) uncertainties are shown as vertical lines (filled boxes). The uncertainties … view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Per-trigger associated yields of the NS (left) and AS (right) peaks for 4 < p e T < 12 GeV/c as a function of p assoc T in Pb–Pb collision centrality classes 0–10% and 30–50%, compared to those obtained from minimumbias pp collisions. The statistical (systematic) unce…

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Per-trigger nuclear modification factor (IAA) of NS (left) and AS (right) associated yields, for electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in the interval 4 < p e T < 12 GeV/c as a function of p assoc T in Pb–Pb collisions of centrality classes 0–10% and 30–50%. The st…

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Per-trigger NS (left) and AS (right) associated peak yields for electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in the intervals 4 < p e T < 7 GeV/c and 7 < p e T < 16 GeV/c as a function of p assoc T in central Pb–Pb collisions, compared to measurements in pp collisions [11…

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Per-trigger nuclear modification factor (IAA) of the NS (left) and AS (right) associated peak yields for electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in intervals 4 < p e T < 7 GeV/c compared to 7 < p e T < 16 GeV/c as a function of p assoc T in central Pb–Pb collisions. …

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: IAA of NS (left) and AS (right) associated peak yield from correlation distributions of electron from heavy-flavor hadron decays as the trigger particle (7 < p e T < 16 GeV/c) compared with that of charged hadrons and K0 S as trigger particles (8 < p trig T < 16 GeV/c …

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**Figure 1.** Figure 1: 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_1.png]

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