Speaker
Dmitry Blau
(National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute (RU))
Description
Identified hadron spectra are considered to be sensitive to transport properties of strongly interacting matter produced in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions.
We present measurements of $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ mesons at mid-rapidity in a wide transverse momentum range in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies measured with the ALICE detector. The mesons are reconstructed via their two-photon decays by two complementary methods, using the electromagnetic calorimeters and the central tracking system for photons converted to electron-positron pairs on the material of the inner ALICE barrel tracking detectors.
Comparison of the ALICE results on neutral mesons with those of lower-energy experiments is discussed.
Author
Dmitry Blau
(National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute (RU))
