Strangeness and heavy flavours within the ALICE experiment

Iouri Belikov (1)

1 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien

The ALICE experiment at CERN is now ready to take data in protonproton and ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at LHC. This review starts with a description of the ALICE experimental setup and its excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities. Then, we will discuss the ways to probe the hot and dense medium created at multi-TeV energies by measuring the yields and kinematic characteristics of strange and heavy-flavour particles produced in these collisions.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]

Iouri Belikov. Strangeness and heavy flavours within the ALICE experiment. International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2009), Sep 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp.94020, ⟨10.1088/0954-3899/37/9/094020⟩. ⟨hal-00600840⟩