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Identified charged hadron production in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC with the ALICE Experiment
Identified particle spectra represent a crucial tool to understand the
behavior of the matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The
transverse momentum p_T distributions of identified hadrons contain
informations about the transverse expansion of the system and constrain the
freezeout properties of the matter created. The ALICE experiment has good
particle identification performance over a broad p_T range. In this
contribution the results for identified pions, kaons and protons in heavy-ion
collisions at 2.76 TeV center-of-mass energy are presented. These results are
compared with other identified particle measurements obtained by previous
experiments, and discussed in terms of the thermal and hydrodynamic pictures.
The status of extensions of this analysis, with the study of identified
particles as a function of event-by-event flow in Pb-Pb collisions, is also
discussed.Comment: Quark Matter 2012 proceedings, 4 pages, 2 figure
Measurement of identified charged hadron spectra with the ALICE experiment at the LHC
The ALICE experiment features multiple particle identification systems. The
measurement of the identified charged hadron spectra in proton-proton
collisions at GeV will be discussed. In the central rapidity
region () particle identification and tracking are performed using
the Inner Tracking System (ITS), which is the closest detector to the beam
axis, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and a dedicated time-of-flight system
(TOF). Particles are mainly identified using the energy loss signal in the ITS
and TPC. In addition, the information from TOF is used to identify hadrons at
higher momenta. Finally, the kink topology of the weak decay of charged kaons
provides an alternative method to extract the transverse momentum spectra of
charged kaons. This combination allows to track and identify charged hadrons in
the transverse momentum () range from 100 MeV/c up to 2.5 GeV/.
Mesons containing strange quarks (\kos, ) and both singly and doubly
strange baryons (\lam, \lambar, and \xip + \xim) are identified by their decay
topology inside the TPC detector. Results obtained with the various
identification tools above described and a comparison with theoretical models
and previously published data will be presented.Comment: 11 pages, 14 figures, contribution to conference proceedings of the
27th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamic
Transverse momentum spectra of hadrons identified with the ALICE Inner Tracking System
The Inner Tracking System is the ALICE detector closest to the beam axis. It
is composed of six layers of silicon detectors: two innermost layers of Silicon
Pixel Detectors (SPD), two intermediate layers of Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD)
and two outermost layers of Silicon Strip Detectors (SSD). The ITS can be used
as a standalone tracker in order to recover tracks that are not reconstructed
by the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and to reconstruct low momentum particles
with down to 100 MeV/c. Particle identification in the ITS is performed
by measuring the energy loss signal in the SDD and SSD layers. The ITS allows
to extend the charged particle identification capability in the ALICE central
rapidity region at low : it is possible to separate in the range
100 MeV/c 500 MeV/c and in the range 200 MeV/c
800 MeV/c. The identification of hadron in the ITS will be discussed in detail,
different methods used to extract the spectra of and will
also be described.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures, submitted as contribution to PLHC2011 conference
proceeding
Two-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions at the LHC with ALICE
The double ridge structure previously observed in Pb-Pb collisions has also
been recently observed in high-multiplicity p-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) =
5.02 TeV. These systems show a long-range structure (large separation in
Delta_eta) at the near- (Delta_phi ~ 0) and away-side (Delta_phi ~ pi) of the
trigger particle. In order to understand the nature of this effect the
two-particle correlation analysis has been extended to identified particles.
Particles are identified up to transverse momentum pT values of 4 GeV/c using
the energy loss signal in the Time Projection Chamber detector, complemented
with the information from the Time of Flight detector. This measurement casts a
new light on the potential collective (i.e. hydrodynamic) behaviour of particle
production in p-Pb collisions.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, Proceedings of Strangeness in Quark Matter 2013
conference, 21-27 July 201
Uncovering the physics of flapping flat plates with artificial evolution
We consider an experiment in which a rectangular flat plate is flapped with two degrees of freedom, and a genetic algorithm tunes its trajectory parameters so as to achieve maximum average lift force, thus evolving a population of trajectories all yielding optimal lift forces. We cluster the converged population by defining a dynamical formation number for a flapping flat plate, thus showing that optimal unsteady force generation is linked to the formation of a leading-edge vortex with maximum circulation. Force and digital particle image velocimetry measurements confirm this result
Ortelius\u27s Map of the World and Homann\u27s Ship Model Map
Abraham Ortelius and Johann Baptist Homann were very successful cartographers who benefitted from the rising trend in curiosity cabinets during the Renaissance. Ortelius lived from 1527-1598 and was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and Homann became famous in Nuremberg, Germany during his life from 1663-1724. [excerpt
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