3–7 Dec 2014
Embassy Suites Napa Valley, California
US/Pacific timezone

Charmonium production in p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC

5 Dec 2014, 10:40
20m
Embassy Suites Napa Valley, California

Embassy Suites Napa Valley, California

Speaker

Mr Michael Andreas Winn (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Description

"Charmonia are considered as a key observable for deconfinement in nucleus-nucleus (A-A) collisions at LHC energies. Measurements in proton-nucleus (p-A) collisions provide crucial information to study nuclear effects which are also present in the absence of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Charmonium production has been measured by ALICE in proton-proton, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions down to p_T = 0 both via their dimuon decay in the forward muon spectrometer and with dielectrons in the central barrel. In this talk, results on the inclusive J/psi and psi(2S) production in p-Pb collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}}~= 5.02 TeV at forward (p going direction), backward (Pb going direction) rapidity and midrapidity as a function of transverse momentum will be presented. At forward and backward rapidities, measurements as function of event activity will be shown. Finally, comparisons with theoretical models will be carried out and further prospects will be discussed."

Author

Mr Michael Andreas Winn (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Presentation materials