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Heavy-flavor production at the LHC offers valuable tests of quantum-chromodynamics calculations, owing to the large masses of heavy quarks. Measurements of charm production as a function of event activity reveal new features of charm…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-01 Robert Vertesi

Open charm mesons produced in high energy A-A interactions are expected to be powerful probes to investigate the medium produced in the collision. In this context it is important to measure the production of as many charmed hadrons as…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Elena Bruna

We study the charge correlations between charm mesons produced in 500 GeV pi- N interactions and the charged pions produced closest to them in phase space. With 110,000 fully reconstructed D mesons from experiment E791 at Fermilab, the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Gounder , L. Cremaldi

We present a study of correlations between D and $\bar{D}$ mesons produced in 500 GeV/$c$ $\pi^-$-nucleon interactions, based on data from experiment E791 at Fermilab. We have fully reconstructed $791 \pm 44$ charm meson pairs to study…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-31 E. M. Aitala

ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the LHC. Its main physics goal is to study the properties of strongly-interacting matter at conditions of high energy density (>10 GeV/ fm^3) and high temperature (> 0.5 GeV) expected to be…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-03 Renu Bala

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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-14 Renu Bala

In this work we are studying the relative beauty to charm production in pp collisions at \sqrt{s} = 2.76 TeV, through correlations between electrons from heavy-flavour decay and charged hadrons, with the ALICE detector at the LHC. This…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Pereira de Oliveira Filho

In this contribution, the nuclear modification factor and azimuthal anisotropy of prompt charm mesons and baryons in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=5.02$ TeV by the ALICE Collaboration are presented. Heavy quarks are a very…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-07-29 Luuk Vermunt

The $p_{\rm T}$-differential production cross sections of the prompt (B feed-down subtracted) charmed mesons D$^0$, D$^+$, and D$^{*+}$ in the rapidity range $|y|<0.5$, and for transverse momentum $1< p_{\rm T} <12$ GeV/$c$, were measured…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-04-18 ALICE Collaboration

We study the prospects for deducing constraints on the interaction of charmed baryons with nucleons from measurements of two-particle momentum correlation functions for $\Lambda_c p$. The correlation functions are calculated for $\Lambda_c…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 J. Haidenbauer , G. Krein , T. C. Peixoto

The $p_\mathrm{T}$-differential production cross sections of prompt and non-prompt (produced in beauty-hadron decays) D mesons were measured by the ALICE experiment at midrapidity ($|y|<0.5$) in proton--proton collisions at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-08-27 ALICE Collaboration

Charm quarks serve as a sensitive probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), providing direct insights into its formation, evolution, and properties. In this proceeding, we present new high-precision measurements from the CMS experiment in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-29 Nihar Ranjan Saha

Charm and beauty quark production measurement represents a fundamental means to access the initial stage of hadronic collisions. Being produced almost exclusively in initial hard partonic scatterings due to their large masses,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-20 Michele Pennisi

We present results on the production of high transverse momentum charm mesons in collisions of 515 GeV/c negative pions with beryllium and copper targets. The experiment recorded a large sample of events containing high transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-04-17 Fermilab E706 Collaboration , L. Apanasevich

The measurements of open heavy-flavours, i.e. D mesons at central rapidity and leptons from charm and beauty decays at central and forward rapidity was studied in p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{{\rm{NN}}}}$ = 5.02 TeV using the ALICE…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-28 Jitendra Kumar

The use of correlation between two open-charm mesons is suggested to give information about the nature of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. Insensitivity to the charm production rate is achieved by measuring normalized cumulant.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 R. C. Hwa

Heavy quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are considered calibrated probes for the strongly interacting deconfined medium (Quark Gluon Plasma, QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisions. Produced in hard scattering processes in the initial stages of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-09 A. Rossi , for ALICE Collaboration

Measurements of mesons containing charm or bottom quarks at high transverse momentum (P_T) constitute an interesting set of probes for the nature of the interaction of hard partons with a QCD medium as created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-21 Thorsten Renk

Heavy quarks are sensitive probes of the colour-deconfined medium formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The ALICE Collaboration measured the production of ${\rm D}^0$, ${\rm D}^+$, ${\rm D}^{*+}$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-09-09 Fabrizio Grosa

The ALICE experiment at the LHC was taking data in proton-proton collisions at the center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV starting from March till the end of October 2010. First heavy-ion collisions were delivered during November 2010. Among other…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-04-09 Serhiy Senyukov for ALICE collaboration