Open heavy flavour production via semi-leptonic decay muons in Pb + Pb collisions at sNN=2.76 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

Measurements of heavy quark production and suppression in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions probe the interactions of heavy quarks with the hot, dense medium created in the collisions. ATLAS has measured heavy quark production in sNN=2.76 TeV Pb + Pb collisions via semi-leptonic decays of open heavy flavour hadrons to muons. Results are presented for the per-event muon yield as a function of muon transverse momentum, pT, over the range of 4