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Contribution
Open heavy flavour analysis with the ALICE experiment at the LHC
Speakers
- Dr. Serhiy SENYUKOV
Primary authors
- Dr. Serhiy SENYUKOV (Universita del Piemonte Orientale)
Abstract content
for the ALICE collaboration
The ALICE experiment at the LHC is taking data in proton-proton
collisions at the center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV starting from March
- Heavy-ion collisions are expected to be delivered during November 2010.
Among other particles charmed and beauty mesons can be reconstructed
by the ALICE apparatus. Open heavy flavour mesons provide a powerful
tool to study hot quark matter produced in high energy heavy-ion
collisions because their spectra are expected to be affected by the
energy loss in the medium. Measuring such particles is important also
in proton-proton collisions. In this case they provide a necessary
reference for heavy-ion collisions and allow to test pQCD predictions in a new energy domain.
Different ways to reconstruct D and B mesons will be described
together with adopted selection and analysis techniques. D mesons in
the central rapidity region are reconstructed via 2,3, and 4-prongs
hadronic decays and via single electrons. In the forward region single
muons are used to reconstruct D and B mesons decays.
Latest results for D mesons, single electrons and single muons will be
presented.