TY - JOUR
T1 - Heavy flavour physics in ALICE
AU - Masera, M.
AU - Christiansen, Peter
AU - Dobrin, Alexandru
AU - Gros, Philippe
AU - Gustafsson, Hans-Åke
AU - Oskarsson, Anders
AU - Österman, Lennart
AU - Otterlund, Ingvar
AU - Stenlund, Evert
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - With a centre-of-mass energy of 5.5 TeV per nucleon, Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC are expected to provide a copious yield of heavy quarks. In this paper, an overview of the ALICE perspectives for heavy flavour physics will be presented. The ALICE experiment will detect quarkonia both in the e+e− and in the μ+μ− decay channels. Open heavy flavoured hadrons will be studied in the semileptonic decay channels at both central and forward rapidities. In addition, exclusive reconstruction of selected hadronic decay modes of charmed hadrons will be possible in the central rapidity region (|η| < 0.9).
AB - With a centre-of-mass energy of 5.5 TeV per nucleon, Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC are expected to provide a copious yield of heavy quarks. In this paper, an overview of the ALICE perspectives for heavy flavour physics will be presented. The ALICE experiment will detect quarkonia both in the e+e− and in the μ+μ− decay channels. Open heavy flavoured hadrons will be studied in the semileptonic decay channels at both central and forward rapidities. In addition, exclusive reconstruction of selected hadronic decay modes of charmed hadrons will be possible in the central rapidity region (|η| < 0.9).
U2 - 10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104144
DO - 10.1088/0954-3899/35/10/104144
M3 - Article
SN - 0954-3899
VL - 35
JO - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
JF - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
M1 - 104144
ER -