Strangeness production in proton-lead collisions with ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Birmingham
Department Name: School of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
My research is on the quark-gluon plasma. This is a state of matter in which the quarks and gluons become deconfined which only occurs at extreme temperatures and densities. These conditions are created in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC and are analysed using data taken by the ALICE experiment. By investigating the quark-gluon plasma we can get a better theoretical understanding of the strong force which is the force which usually confines quarks within hadrons. I look at one of the signatures of quark-gluon plasma formation called strangeness enhancement which was seen in the initial data from ALICE in lead-lead collisions as expected. However, we also found evidence of strangeness enhancement in some proton-proton and proton-lead collisions which was surprising as a quark-gluon plasma is not expected to form in these conditions. My research is looking at the latest proton-lead data taken at higher energies to investigate this phenomenon further.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Emily Willsher (Student) |
Publications
Behera N
(2019)
Higher moment fluctuations of identified particle distributions from ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
Bailhache R
(2019)
Dielectron measurements in pp and Pb-Pb colllisions with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Andrews H
(2019)
Exploring the Phase Space of Jet Splittings at ALICE using Grooming and Recursive Techniques
in Nuclear Physics A
Albuquerque D
(2019)
Hadronic resonances, strange and multi-strange particle production in Xe-Xe and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Adam J
(2019)
Erratum to: Insight into particle production mechanisms via angular correlations of identified particles in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2019)
Measurement of dielectron production in central Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Acharya S
(2019)
? suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2017)
ALICE Collaboration
in Nuclear Physics A
Acharya S
(2017)
Measuring K S 0 K ± interactions using Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Studentship Projects
| Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST/N503939/1 | 30/09/2015 | 29/03/2021 | |||
| 1843572 | Studentship | ST/N503939/1 | 30/09/2016 | 30/03/2020 | Emily Willsher |