Charm and beauty of the Large Hadron Collider
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
With the acceleration of lead nuclei in the LHC, heavy-ion physics will enter a new energy domain. One of the main novelties introduced by the 30-fold energy-jump from RHIC to the LHC is the abundant heavy-quark production. After discussing a few examples of physics issues that can be addressed using heavy quarks, we present a selection of results on the expected experimental capability of ALICE, the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the LHC, in the open-heavy-flavour sector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0501293,
title = {Charm and beauty of the Large Hadron Collider},
author = {Andrea Dainese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0501293},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures. Invited talk at Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM) 2004, Cape Town, South Africa, 15-20 September 2004. Submitted to J. Phys. G