# Quark Matter 2017

5-11 February 2017
Hyatt Regency Chicago
America/Chicago timezone

## Measurement of neutral mesons in pp collisions at $¥sqrt{s}$ = 5.02 TeV via photon conversion method with ALICE

Not scheduled
2h 30m
Hyatt Regency Chicago

#### Hyatt Regency Chicago

151 East Wacker Drive Chicago, Illinois, USA, 60601
Board: B14
Poster

### Speaker

Hikari Murakami (University of Tokyo (JP))

### Description

Measurement of neutral mesons, such as $¥pi^{0}$ and $¥eta$ plays an important role to study parton energy loss in the Quark-Gluon Plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Such measurement in pp collisions at $¥sqrt{s}$ = 5.02 TeV provides a good reference for understanding the mechanisms appearing in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the same collision energy.
In ALICE, we measure $¥pi^{0}$ and $¥eta$ mesons by using calorimeters, and photon conversion method (PCM). These different methods make it possible to measure neutral mesons in a very wide $p_{{¥rm T}}$ range. In the PCM, neutral mesons are measured by detecting decay photons converted in electron-positron pairs which are reconstructed in the ALICE central barrel detectors, Inner tracking system and Time Projection Chamber.
In this poster, we will present a detailed description of the analysis and the status of the measurements will be discussed.

Preferred Track Jets and High pT Hadrons ALICE

### Primary author

Hikari Murakami (University of Tokyo (JP))