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Peter Christiansen

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Heavy flavour physics in ALICE

Author

  • M. Masera
  • Peter Christiansen
  • Alexandru Dobrin
  • Philippe Gros
  • Hans-Åke Gustafsson
  • Anders Oskarsson
  • Lennart Österman
  • Ingvar Otterlund
  • Evert Stenlund

Summary, in English

With a centre-of-mass energy of 5.5 TeV per nucleon, Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC are expected to provide a copious yield of heavy quarks. In this paper, an overview of the ALICE perspectives for heavy flavour physics will be presented. The ALICE experiment will detect quarkonia both in the e+e− and in the μ+μ− decay channels. Open heavy flavoured hadrons will be studied in the semileptonic decay channels at both central and forward rapidities. In addition, exclusive reconstruction of selected hadronic decay modes of charmed hadrons will be possible in the central rapidity region (|η| < 0.9).

Department/s

  • Particle and nuclear physics

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

Volume

35

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0954-3899