Medium-modified fragmentation of b-jets tagged by a leading muon in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions
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The possibility to observe the medium-modified fragmentation of hard b quarks tagged by a leading muon in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions is analyzed. We have found that reasonable statistics, ∼ 10 4 events per 1 month of LHC run with lead beams, can be expected for the realistic geometrical acceptance and kinematic cuts. The numerical estimates on the effect of the medium-induced softening b-jet fragmentation function are given.