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Minimum-Bias and Early QCD Physics in ALICE
A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In addition to its heavy-ion physics
program, it also has a rich proton-proton physics program benefiting from a
detector with a low momentum cut-off (pT about 50 MeV/c) and a small material
budget (about 11% of a radiation length until the outer wall of the main
tracking detector, the Time-Projection Chamber). ALICE has excellent means of
particle identification (PID) with methods ranging from specific energy loss
and time of flight to transition and Cherenkov radiation. The good primary and
secondary vertex resolution allows for measurements of strangeness and heavy
flavor with low backgrounds. ALICE has taken proton-proton collision data at
0.9, 2.36, and 7 TeV. In this article results of the first minimum-bias and
soft-QCD measurements are presented. Inclusive pseudorapidity, multiplicity,
and transverse momentum distributions are discussed as well as distributions of
identified particles including strange particles. Further, results on two-pion
Bose-Einstein correlations and the antiproton-to-proton ratio in collisions at
the LHC are shown.Comment: Proceedings of the Hadron Collider Physics Symposium 201
Multi-strange baryon production in Pb-Pb and pp collisions at = 2.76 TeV with the ALICE experiment at the LHC
The production of and baryons and their anti-particles
in Pb-Pb and pp collisions at = 2.76 TeV has been measured by
the ALICE collaboration. The transverse momentum spectra at mid-rapidity (|y| <
0.5) in pp and Pb-Pb collisions for five centrality intervals have been
compared with model predictions. Hyperon yields and spectra in Pb-Pb
collisions, normalized to the corresponding measurements in pp at the same
centre-of-mass energy, allow the study of the strangeness enhancement and the
nuclear modification factor as a function of the transverse momentum ()
and collision centrality.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings of the Strangeness in Quark Matter
Conference (SQM 2013), 22nd - 27th July 2013, published by the Open Access
Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS), in the IOP conference serie
and Production in Charged Particle Jets in p--Pb Collisions at TeV with ALICE
We study the production of mesons and baryons
in jets in p--Pb collisions at TeV with ALICE at the
LHC. The -differential density of the particles produced in jets is
compared to the inclusive distributions and the
ratio is reported in bins of multiplicity of the collisions. The hard
scatterings are selected on an event-by-event basis using the anti-
clustering algorithm with resolution parameter and ,
reconstructed from charged particles with a minimum of (or
) GeV/.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Quark Matter 2014 proceeding, submitted to Nucl.
Phys.
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
Transverse momentum distribution of charged particles and identified hadrons in p-Pb collisions at the LHC with ALICE
Hadron production has been measured at mid-rapidity by the ALICE experiment
at the LHC in proton-lead (p-Pb) collisions at = 5.02 TeV.
The transverse momentum () distribution of primary charged particles
and of identified light-flavoured hadrons (, K, K, p, , , ) are presented in this
report. Charged-particle tracks are reconstructed in the central barrel over a
wide momentum range. Furthermore they can be identified by exploiting specific
energy loss (d/d), time-of-flight and topological particle-identification
techniques. Particle-production yields, spectral shapes and particle ratios are
measured in several multiplicity classes and are compared with results obtained
in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. The measurement of charged-particle transverse
momentum spectra and nuclear modification factor R indicates that
the strong suppression of high- hadrons observed in Pb-Pb collisions
is not due to initial-state effects, but it is rather a fingerprint of jet
quenching in hot QCD matter. The systematic study of the hadronic spectral
shapes as a function of the particle mass and of particle ratios as a function
of charged-particle density provides insights into collective phenomena, as
observed in Pb-Pb collisions. Similar features, that could be present in
high-multiplicity p-Pb collisions, will also be discussed.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, presented at the The European Physical Society
Conference on High Energy Physics - EPS-HEP2013, 18-24 July 2013, Stockholm,
Swede
Energy dependence of the saturation scale and the charged multiplicity in pp and AA collisions
A natural framework to understand the energy dependence of bulk observables
from lower energy experiments to the LHC is provided by the Color Glass
Condensate, which leads to a "geometrical scaling" in terms of an energy
dependent saturation scale Q_s. The measured charged multiplicity, however,
seems to grow faster (~\sqrt{s}^0.3) in nucleus-nucleus collisions than it does
for protons (~\sqrt{s}^0.2), violating the expectation from geometric scaling.
We argue that this difference between pp and AA collisions can be understood
from the effect of DGLAP evolution on the value of the saturation scale, and is
consistent with gluon saturation observations at HERA.Comment: RevTeX, 8 pages, 4 figures. V2: modified discussion of fragmentation,
published in EPJ
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