Russo, R. (2014) D meson nuclear modification factor in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector. Il nuovo cimento C, 37 (1). pp. 315-317. ISSN 1826-9885
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Abstract
Open heavy-flavour hadrons are a powerful tool to investigate the properties of the high-density medium created in heavy-ion collisions at high energies as they come from the hadronization of heavy quarks. The latter are created in the early stage of the interaction and experience the whole collision history. Heavyquark in-medium energy loss can be investigated by comparing the heavy-flavour production cross sections in p-p and nucleus-nucleus collisions. D mesons are identified from their hadronic decays which are reconstructed with ALICE in the central rapidity region using the tracking and PID detectors. We report on the measurements of D+, D0, D∗+ and D+s production as a function of transverse momentum (pT) in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76TeV, which allow one to calculate the nuclear modification factor. The latter is expected to be sensitive to the in-medium energy loss of charm quarks.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Relativistic heavy-ion collisions |
| Subjects: | 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 12 May 2020 16:16 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2020 16:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/18539 |
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