# Quark Matter 2017

Feb 5 – 11, 2017
Hyatt Regency Chicago
America/Chicago timezone

## New high resolution measurements of open and hidden charm production in proton-nucleus collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 110$ GeV with the LHCb detector.

Feb 7, 2017, 5:50 PM
20m
Regency D

### Regency D

Oral Open Heavy Flavors

### Speaker

Emilie Amandine Maurice (University of Liverpool (GB))

### Description

Open and hidden charm production in nucleus-nucleus collisions is
considered as a key signature of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) formation.
In the search of specific QGP effects, proton-nucleus collisions are used as
the reference as they account for the corresponding Cold Nuclear Matter
(CNM) effects.The LHCb experiment, thanks to its System for Measuring
Overlap with Gas (SMOG) can be operated in a fixed target mode with the LHC beams, at an intermediate center-of-mass energy between nominal SPS and RHIC energies. This allows for the required variety of beam- target combinations in a particularly interesting kinematical domain. In 2015, for the first time, reactions of incident LHC proton beams on noble gas targets have been recorded by the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy of 110 GeV and within the center-of-mass rapidity range -2.3 < y* < 0.2. In this talk, we will present the first high resolution measurements on open and hidden charm production obtained under these conditions.

Collaboration LHCb Open Heavy Flavors

### Primary author

Emilie Amandine Maurice (University of Liverpool (GB))