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Vector boson and charmonia measurements in +Pb collisions with ATLAS
The production of electroweak bosons ( and ) and charmonia is
sensitive to the initial-state geometry of heavy-ion collisions and to the
parton distribution function with its potential nuclear modification. Since
their leptonic decay products do not interact strongly, their kinematics are
unmodified by the strongly interacting medium, which can be created in a
heavy-ion collision. We report on the latest results of the ATLAS Collaboration
on electroweak boson and charmonia production in +Pb collisions at
TeV. Production yields of and bosons are
presented as a function of (pseudo-)rapidity in different centrality bins. The
forward-backward ratio of J/ is shown as a function of transverse
momentum and center-of-mass rapidity.Comment: 5 pages, 7 figures, Proceedings of XXIV International Workshop on
Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS 2016), DESY Hamburg,
Germany, 11-15 April, 201
Low-mass dielectron measurement in pp and Pb--Pb collisions in ALICE
We report on the first dielectron measurement in pp collisons at TeV with the ALICE detector system. The results are compared to the expected
hadronic sources. The hadronic cocktail agrees to the measured dielectron
continuum within statistical and systematic uncertainties. The status of the
dielectron measurement in Pb--Pb collisions at {} TeV is
addressed.Comment: 4 pages, 7 figures, Proceedings for Hot Quarks 2012 workshop (October
14-20, 2012, Copamarina, Puerto Rico
Dielectron measurements in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
Electromagnetic probes are excellent messengers from the hot and dense medium
created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Since leptons do not interact
strongly, their spectra reflect the entire space-time evolution of the
collision. The surrounding medium can lead to modifications of the dielectron
production with respect to the vacuum rate. To quantify modifications in
heavy-ion collisions, measurements in pp collisions serve as a reference, while
the analysis of p-A collisions allows for the disentanglement of cold nuclear
matter effects from those of the hot and dense medium. In this proceedings,
dielectron measurements with the ALICE central barrel detectors are presented.
The invariant mass distributions in the range GeV/ are
compared to the expected yields from hadronic sources for pp collisions at TeV, and for p-Pb collisions at TeV.
The cross section of direct photons measured via virtual photons in pp
collisions is compared to predictions from NLO pQCD calculations as a function
of the transverse momentum. The status of the analysis of Pb-Pb collisions at TeV is presented.Comment: 4 pages, 8 figures, Proceedings of the "Quark Matter 2014
Conference", XXIV International Conference on Ultrarelativistic
Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Darmstadt, May 19-24 201
Towards electron transport measurements in chemically modified graphene: The effect of a solvent
Chemical functionalization of graphene modifies the local electron density of
the carbon atoms and hence electron transport. Measuring these changes allows
for a closer understanding of the chemical interaction and the influence of
functionalization on the graphene lattice. However, not only chemistry, in this
case diazonium chemistry, has an effect on the electron transport. Latter is
also influenced by defects and dopants resulting from different processing
steps. Here, we show that solvents used in the chemical reaction process change
the transport properties. In more detail, the investigated combination of
isopropanol and heating treatment reduces the doping concentration and
significantly increases the mobility of graphene. Furthermore, the isopropanol
treatment alone increases the concentration of dopants and introduces an
asymmetry between electron and hole transport which might be difficult to
distinguish from the effect of functionalization. The results shown in this
work demand a closer look on the influence of solvents used for chemical
modification in order to understand their influence
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