8–14 Sept 2013
Hotel Louxo - Illa da Toxa - Galicia (Spain)
Europe/Zurich timezone

Light-flavour hadron production in p-Pb collisions measured with the ALICE detector at the LHC

12 Sept 2013, 17:00
20m
Hotel Louxo - Illa da Toxa - Galicia (Spain)

Hotel Louxo - Illa da Toxa - Galicia (Spain)

Speaker

Francesco Barile (Universita e INFN (IT))

Description

The LHC has recently provided p-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV which play a fundamental role in the understanding of cold nuclear matter effects in heavy ion collisions, providing essential information to discriminate between initial and final state effects. Results from two-particle correlation measurements have revealed an unexpected double ridge structure in these collisions, which could be interpreted either as a sign of collective flow or as an initial state effect related to saturation phenomena. In this talk we present results on identified particles as a function of multiplicity, to investigate possible indications of radial flow. Charged and weakly decaying neutral particles are reconstructed in the ALICE central barrel over a wide momentum range and identified by employing different sub-systems and techniques. Transverse momentum spectra of primary charged particles and identified light flavoured hadrons have been measured. The yields, average pT, and particle ratios are reported as a function of multiplicity, and compared to other collision systems and theoretical models.

Primary author

Francesco Barile (Universita e INFN (IT))

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