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Proton-proton physics in ALICE

Nuclear Experiment 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The ALICE experiment has several unique features which makes it an important contributor to proton-proton physics at the LHC, in addition to its specific design goal of studying the physics of strongly interacting matter in heavy-ion collisions. The unique capabilities include its low transverse momentum (\pT) acceptance, excellent vertexing, particle identification over a broad \pT range and jet reconstruction. In this report, a brief review of ALICE capabilities is given for studying bulk properties of produced particles which characterize the underlying events, and the physics of heavy-flavour, quarkonia, photons, di-leptons and jets.

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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0701067,
  title  = {Proton-proton physics in ALICE},
  author = {Tapan K. Nayak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0701067},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, Quark Matter 2006 proceedings