Speaker
Dr
Javier Castillo Castellanos
(Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN))
Description
ALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions. The main purpose of ALICE is to investigate the properties of a state of deconfined nuclear matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma. Heavy flavour measurements will play a crucial role in this investigation. The physics programme of ALICE has started by studying proton-proton collisions at unprecedented high energies.
We will present the first results on open heavy flavour and quarkonia in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV measured by the ALICE experiment at both mid- and forward-rapidities. We will conclude with the prospects for heavy flavour and quarkonium measurements in both proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions.
Primary author
Dr
Javier Castillo Castellanos
(Service de Physique Nucleaire (SPhN))
