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The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a deconfined state of matter produced in heavy-ion collisions, whose properties can be probed through the azimuthal anisotropy of particle production in the medium. Beauty hadrons are useful as sensitive probes of the QGP due to their large quark mass, however their behaviour at forward rapidities is not well recorded. Here, we present a study of b-hadron production as a function of charged-particle multiplicity, in the forward region of the ALICE detector, in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ $=$ $5.36$ TeV, using beauty and charm enriched Monte Carlo data from the ALICE Grid. The two-particle correlation method is applied within the O2 (Online-Offline) Physics framework using ROOT to extract the azimuthal angle distributions of the b-hadron production by identifying muons produced from b-hadron decay, hence focusing on data from the Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) at $-3.6$ $<$ $\eta$ $<$ $-2.5$ . Preliminary results from this pp reference study will be presented. This work provides a foundation for quantifying azimuthal anisotropy of forward b-hadrons in heavy-ion collisions and constraining heavy-quark energy-loss models.
| Apply for student award at which level: | MSc |
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