Published March 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

(Anti-)deuteron production at the LHC with the ALICE-HMPID detector

Creators

  • 1. for the ALICE Collaboration. INFN, Sezione di Bari and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, Bari (Italy)

Description

The high center-of-mass energies delivered by the LHC during the last three years of operation led to accumulate a significant statistics of light (hyper-)nuclei in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions. The ALICE apparatus allows for the detection of these rarely produced particles over a wide momentum range thanks to its excellent vertexing, tracking and particle identification capabilities. The last is based on the specific energy loss in the Time Projection Chamber and the velocity measurement with the Time-Of-Flight detector. The Cherenkov technique, exploited by a small acceptance detector (HMPID), has been also recently used for the most central Pb-Pb collisions to extend the identification range of the (anti-)deuteron at intermediate transverse momentum. An overview of the recent results on the (anti-)deuteron production in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions measured with ALICE experiment are presented, giving a particular emphasis to the description of the Cherenkov technique.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuovo Cimento C. (Online)
Journal Volume
38C
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 1-8
ISSN
1826-9885