Speaker
Dr
Alexandre Lebedev
(Iowa State University)
Description
Measurement of different quarkonia states is a well known
tool for study of hot and dense matter produced in heavy ion
collisions.
The PHENIX experiment at RHIC have successfully measured
chi_c production in p+p and d+Au collisions at 200 GeV.
The chi_c decays were reconstructed through their decays to J/Psi+gamma.
Results from the 2006 p+p and 2008 d+Au
datasets at 200GeV will be presented.
The accuracy and pT reach of these measurements potentially can
be improved if one uses conversions of soft photons from
chi_c decays to e+e- pairs. These pairs can be then detected by
the VTX detector recently installed in PHENIX.
We present a simulation study of such measurement, and
comparison to existing measurements.
Primary author
Dr
Alexandre Lebedev
(Iowa State University)
