Measurement of low-mass dielectrons in p-Pb collisions with ALICE

20 May 2014, 16:30
2h
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darmstadtium

Board: G-06
Poster Electromagnetic Probes Poster session

Speaker

Theo Alexander Broker (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

Description

Low-mass dielectrons are an important probe for the hot and dense medium which is created in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Since leptons do not interact strongly, they carry information from all collision stages with negligible final state interaction. While pp collisions provide a reference measurement for a medium-free environment, the impact of cold nuclear matter effects on the dielectron characteristics can be estimated from p-Pb collisions. In this poster the latest results of the dielectron measurements in minimum bias p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV with the ALICE detector are presented. The measured dielectron mass spectra will be compared to expectations from hadronic sources.
On behalf of collaboration: ALICE

Primary author

Theo Alexander Broker (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

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