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Figure 5: Differential transverse momentum cross section for single muons in −4 < η < −2.5. The statistical<br />

error is smaller than the markers. The systematic errors (open boxes) do not inclu<strong>de</strong> an additional 10% error on<br />

the minimum-bias pp cross section. The yellow b<strong>and</strong> indicates the FONLL prediction.<br />

muons from the <strong>de</strong>cay of hadrons produced in the interaction with the front absorber (secondary<br />

muons); c) punch-through hadrons. The last contribution can be efficiently rejected by requiring<br />

the matching of the reconstructed tracks with the tracks in the trigger system. Due to the lower<br />

mass of the parent particles, the background muons have a softer pT distribution than the<br />

heavy-flavour muons, <strong>and</strong> dominate the low-pT region. Therefore, the analysis is restricted<br />

to the pT range 2-6.5 GeV/c, where the upper limit is being <strong>de</strong>termined by the current pT<br />

resolution of spectrometer with partial alignment. Simulation studies indicate that, in this pT<br />

range, the contribution of secondary muons is small (about 3%). The main source of background<br />

in this region consists of <strong>de</strong>cay muons (about 25%), which have been subtracted using Monte<br />

Carlo simulations. Figure ?? illustrates the single muon pT cross section after corrections. The<br />

systematic uncertainties are 20-25%. The FONLL calculation ? agrees with the data within<br />

uncertainties.<br />

6 Summary<br />

Recent ALICE results on open charmed mesons <strong>and</strong> single leptons in pp collisions at 7 TeV<br />

are presented. The production cross-section of single electrons, single muons <strong>and</strong> D mesons are<br />

measured up to pT = 4, 6.5 <strong>and</strong> 12 GeV/c, respectively, <strong>and</strong> show good agreement with NLO<br />

p<strong>QCD</strong> calculations. First D meson signals are shown for Pb–Pb collisions at √ sNN = 2.76 TeV.<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

The European Research Council has provi<strong>de</strong>d financial support un<strong>de</strong>r the European Community’s<br />

Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement no 210223. This<br />

work was supported in part by a Vidi grant from the Netherl<strong>and</strong>s Organisation for Scientific<br />

Research (project number 680-47-232).<br />

References<br />

1. P. Cortese et al. [ALICE Collaboration], J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 32, 1295 (2006).<br />

2. K. Aamodt et al. [ALICE Collaboration], J. Instrum. 3, S08002 (2008).<br />

3. K. Aamodt et al. [ALICE Collaboration], Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252301 (2010).<br />

4. K. Aamodt et al. [ALICE Collaboration], J. Instrum. 5, P03003 (2010).<br />

5. A. Grelli for the ALICE Collaboration, PoS (ICHEP 2010) 191.<br />

6. M. Cacciari et al., private communication.<br />

7. B.A. Kniehl et al., private communication.

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