Open Charm Mesons at the LHC with ALICE
Abstract
The ALICE experiment will be able to detect hadrons containing charm and beauty quarks in proton-proton and heavy ion collisions in the new energy regime of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Open charmed mesons are a powerful tool to study the medium produced in heavy ion collisions, since charm quarks are produced on a very short time scale and they experience the whole history of the collision. In addition, the measurements of heavy flavour yield provide a natural normalization for those of charmonia and bottomonia production at LHC. In this talk, after a general overview of ALICE perspectives for heavy flavour physics, we will report some study of D-meson reconstruction through their hadronic decay channels with Monte Carlo simulated data.
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@article{arxiv.0907.1947,
title = {Open Charm Mesons at the LHC with ALICE},
author = {Renu Bala},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.1947},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 4 figures