Study of b-jet tagging performance in ALICE

Abstract

We present the current status and Monte Carlo study based performance estimates of b-jet tagging using ALICE, as obtained using both impact parameter as well as secondary vertex methods. We also address the prospects of the identification of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays to obtain b-jet enhanced jet samples.Comment: 3 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of the Strangeness in Quark Matter Conference (SQM 2013), 22nd - 27th July 2013, published by the Open Access Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), in the IOP conference serie