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    Azimuthal Angle Correlations of Muons Produced via Heavy-Flavor Decays in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector
    (2024-05-17)
    Filmer, E. K.
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    Grant, C. M.
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    Jackson, P.
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    Kong, A. X.Y.
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    Pandya, H. D.
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    Potti, H.
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    Ruggeri, T. A.
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    Ting, E. X.L.
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    White, M. J.
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    Gingrich, D. M.
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    Lindon, J. H.
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    Nishu, N.
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    Pinfold, J. L.
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    Cakir, O.
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    Yildiz, H. Duran
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    Kuday, S.
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    Turk Cakir, I.
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    Sultansoy, S.
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    Adam Bourdarios, C.
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    Arnaez, O.
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    Berger, N.
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    Castillo, F. L.
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    Costanza, F.
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    Delmastro, M.
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    Di Ciaccio, L.
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    Hryn’ova, T.
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    Jézéquel, S.
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    Koletsou, I.
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    Levêque, J.
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    Lewis, D. J.
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    Little, J. D.
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    Lorenzo Martinez, N.
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    Poddar, G.
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    Sanchez Pineda, A.
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    Sauvan, E.
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    Bernardi, G.
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    Bomben, M.
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    Li, A.
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    Li, T.
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    Marchiori, G.
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    Nakkalil, K.
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    Shen, Q.
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    Zhang, Y.
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    Chekanov, S.
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    Darmora, S.
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    Hopkins, W. H.
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    Hoya, J.
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    Love, J.
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    Luongo, N. A.
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    Metcalfe, J.
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    Mete, A. S.
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    Paramonov, A.
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    Proudfoot, J.
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    Van Gemmeren, P.
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    Wamorkar, T.
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    Wang, R.
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    Zhang, J.
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    Cheu, E.
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    Cui, Z.
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    Ghosh, A.
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    Johns, K. A.
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    Lampl, W.
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    Lindley, R. E.
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    Loch, P.
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    Rutherfoord, J. P.
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    Sardain, J.
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    Varnes, E. W.
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    Zhou, H.
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    Zhou, Y.
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    Bakshi Gupta, D.
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    Burghgrave, B.
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    Cardenas, J. C.J.
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    De, K.
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    Farbin, A.
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    Hadavand, H. K.
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    Myers, A. J.
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    Ozturk, N.
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    Usai, G.
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    White, A.
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    Angelidakis, S.
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    Fassouliotis, D.
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    Fountas, L.
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    Gkialas, I.
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    Kourkoumelis, C.
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    Alexopoulos, T.
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    Drivas-Koulouris, I.
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    Gazis, E. N.
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    Kitsaki, C.
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    Maltezos, S.
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    Paraskevopoulos, C.
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    Perganti, M.
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    Tzanis, P.
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    Andeen, T.
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    Burton, C. D.
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    Choi, K.
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    Onyisi, P. U.E.
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    Panchal, D. K.
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    Tost, M.
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    Unal, M.
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    Huseynov, N.
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    Fernandez Luengo, S.I.
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    Fuenzalida Garrido, S.
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    Carolina Robles Gajardo
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    Tapia Araya, S.
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    Angular correlations between heavy quarks provide a unique probe of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Results are presented of a measurement of the azimuthal angle correlations between muons originating from semileptonic decays of heavy quarks produced in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and 𝑝⁢𝑝 collisions at the LHC. The muons are measured with transverse momenta and pseudorapidities satisfying 𝑝𝜇T>4  GeV and |𝜂𝜇|<2.4, respectively. The distributions of azimuthal angle separation Δ⁢𝜙 for muon pairs having pseudorapidity separation |Δ⁢𝜂|>0.8, are measured in different Pb+Pb centrality intervals and compared to the same distribution measured in 𝑝⁢𝑝 collisions at the same center-of-mass energy. Results are presented separately for muon pairs with opposite-sign charges, same-sign charges, and all pairs. A clear peak is observed in all Δ⁢𝜙 distributions at Δ⁢𝜙∼𝜋, consistent with the parent heavy-quark pairs being produced via hard-scattering processes. The widths of that peak, characterized using Cauchy-Lorentz fits to the Δ⁢𝜙 distributions, are found to not vary significantly as a function of Pb+Pb collision centrality and are similar for 𝑝⁢𝑝 and Pb+Pb collisions. This observation will provide important constraints on theoretical descriptions of heavy-quark interactions with the quark-gluon plasma.