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The ALICE muon spetrometer and related physics

Author

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

Summary, in English

ALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions at extreme energy density where formation of the quark–gluon plasma is expected. Among the different observables, open heavy flavors and heavy quarkonia states are especially relevant. Indeed they will be copiously produced and they will provide sensitive information on the collision. In this paper, the ALICE muon spectrometer will be described as well as the installation status. A few selected topics concerning the muon physics will be addressed and the related expected performances of the ALICE muon spectrometer will be given.

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