Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2012-02-28
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
14 pages, 8 figures, Conference Proceedings "LHC on the March", Protvino, Russia, November 2011
Scientific paper
The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC has conducted first systematic studies of heavy-flavour hadron production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV and in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV. In pp collisions the differential production cross sections of D mesons at mid-rapidity, as well as the cross sections for electrons and muons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays at mid- and forward-rapidity, respectively, have been measured. These data provide a crucial testing ground for perturbative QCD calculations in the new LHC energy regime. In Pb-Pb collisions, the nuclear modification factor R_AA(p_t) has been measured for D mesons and for leptons from heavy-flavour decays, indicating energy loss of heavy quarks in the partonic medium produced in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. The strong interaction of charm quarks with this medium might also generate a non-zero elliptic flow of D mesons as first studies of the azimuthal anisotropy of D^0-meson production suggest.
Averbeck Ralf
for the ALICE Collaboration
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