Production of light flavor hadrons at intermediate and high $p_{\rm T}$ measured with the ALICE detector

19 May 2014, 16:30
20m
titanium (darmstadtium)

titanium

darmstadtium

Schlossgraben 1 64283 Darmstadt Germany
Contributed Talk Initial State Physics Initial state physics

Speaker

Michael Linus Knichel (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

Description

Light flavor transverse momentum spectra at intermediate and high $p_{\rm T}$ are important as baseline perturbative QCD measurements in pp, evaluating initial state effects (nuclear p.d.f.'s) in p-Pb, and for investigating the suppression in Pb-Pb collisions. In this talk results for all these collisional systems will be presented. The new measurement of $R_{\rm pPb}$ for unidentified charged particles extended up to 50 GeV/$c$ will be presented together with the construction of the reference pp spectrum at $\sqrt{s} = 5.02$ TeV. The final results on the production of charged pions, kaons, and protons up to $p_{\rm T} = 20$ GeV/$c$ in pp and Pb-Pb collisions will also be reported and compared to recent QCD and phenomenological calculations. The impact of these results on our interpretation of jet quenching in Pb-Pb through $R_{\rm AA}$ and the question of whether the proton-to-pion ratio can still be considered to be anomalous will be discussed.
On behalf of collaboration: ALICE

Primary author

Michael Linus Knichel (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

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