Séminaire: Quarkonia and open heavy flavour production in pp, pPb, Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE

par Dr Lizardo VALENCIA PALOMO (LPC-Clermont)

vendredi 17 janv. 2014, 14:30 → 15:30 Europe/Paris

Amphi Recherche (Dept.Phys.)

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), one of the four main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was designed and built to perform dedicated research on heavy ion collisions to study the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), a deconfined state of strongly interacting QCD matter. As heavy flavours are produced on a very short time scale in the initial hard scattering processes, they can be used to characterize the hot and dense medium formed in high energy heavy-ion collisions through their modified yield as compared to pp collisions. In ALICE, quarkonia and heavy flavours are measured via their leptonic decay at mid (|y| < 0.9) and forward (2.5 < y < 4) rapidity. In addition, charmed mesons are also detected at mid rapidity via their hadronic decay. The latest results on quarkonia and heavy flavour production by the ALICE experiment in pp, pPb and Pb-Pb collisions will be presented.

Slides Seminaire-VALENCIA-PALOMO.pdf