ALICE perspectives for the study of charm and beauty energy loss at the LHC

ALICE perspectives for the study of charm and beauty energy loss at the LHC

At LHC energy, heavy quarks will be abundantly produced and the design of the ALICE detector will allow us to study their production using several channels. The expected heavy-quark in-medium energy loss in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC is calculated within a model, that is compared to the a...

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Published in:The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 135 - 141
Main Author: Dainese, A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Springer Nature B.V 01-01-2007
Subjects:
Charm (particle physics)
Energy dissipation
Large Hadron Collider
Mesons
Phenomenology
Quarks
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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Summary:At LHC energy, heavy quarks will be abundantly produced and the design of the ALICE detector will allow us to study their production using several channels. The expected heavy-quark in-medium energy loss in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC is calculated within a model, that is compared to the available heavy-quark quenching measurements at RHIC. The nuclear modification factors and heavy-to-light ratios of charm and beauty mesons are considered. The capability of the ALICE experiment for addressing this phenomenology is discussed.
ISSN:1434-6044
1434-6052
DOI:10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0118-1