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Prospects for heavy flavour measurements with the ALICE inner tracker upgrade

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-06-19 v1 Nuclear Experiment Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

ALICE is the general purpose heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC. Its goal is to investigate the properties of the strongly interacting matter under the extreme conditions of density and temperature reached in Pb{Pb collisions, with the aim to characterize the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). In this scenario, the upgrade of the ALICE inner tracker targets physics topics in which ALICE can bring a unique contribution to the QGP characterization via the heavy avour probes. We present an overview of the inner tracker upgrade and the expected physics performance for heavy avour measurements.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0054,
  title  = {Prospects for heavy flavour measurements with the ALICE inner tracker upgrade},
  author = {Cristina Terrevoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0054},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Proceeding of Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013 (SQM 2013) conference, July 2013