Heavy Flavour Measurements with ALICE
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
This Project focuses on the analysis of data taken with the ALICE detector in both p-p and p-Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN). The ALICE Liverpool group's main activity is the use of heavy-flavour probes to understand the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Heavy-flavour quarks are created in the initial stages of the collision and the temperature in the QGP is lower than that to create quark-antiquark pairs of these heavy flavours. This means that particles containing c and b quarks can act as effective probes to the evolution of the QGP. The probe of particular interest to this project is the Ac baryon, which is the lowest mass charmed baryon. The Ac baryon is not directly observed in the ALICE detectors but its decay products are. In the high-energy collisions at the LHC, there is a large amount of background contributed from random combinations of particles unrelated to the decay we want to measure. To rectify this, several advanced data analysis methods have been developed and used to extract the Ac signal from the background (with Monte Carlo and LHC Run 1 data). These methods include using standard topological cuts or a multivariate machine learning approach. This PhD project aims to utilise and further develop these current analytical methods for the analysis of data taken during Run 2 (2015-2018) at the LHC.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Marielle Chartier (Primary Supervisor) | |
Christopher Hills (Student) |
Publications
Acharya S
(2020)
Measurement of $$\Lambda $$(1520) production in pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 7\ \hbox {TeV}$$ and p-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}} = 5.02\ \hbox {TeV}$$
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2019)
Charged-particle production as a function of multiplicity and transverse spherocity in pp collisions at $$ \sqrt{\mathbf{s}} =\mathbf{5.02}$$ and 13 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2018)
Measurement of the inclusive J/ $$\psi $$ ? polarization at forward rapidity in pp collisions at $$\mathbf {\sqrt{s} = 8}$$ s = 8 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2019)
Charged-particle pseudorapidity density at mid-rapidity in p-Pb collisions at $$\pmb {\sqrt{s_{\scriptscriptstyle {\mathrm{NN}}}}}$$ s NN = 8.16 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2017)
Measurement of deuteron spectra and elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{\mathrm {NN}}}$$ s NN = 2.76 TeV at the LHC
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2018)
$$\pi ^{0}$$ p 0 and $$\eta $$ ? meson production in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=8$$ s = 8 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2018)
Neutral pion and $$\eta $$ ? meson production in p-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}$$ s NN = 5.02 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2018)
$$\phi $$ ? meson production at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_\mathrm {NN}}=2.76$$ s NN = 2.76 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2019)
Measurement of the inclusive isolated photon production cross section in $$\text{ p }\text{ p }$$ collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2018)
Prompt and non-prompt $$\hbox {J}/\psi $$ J / ? production and nuclear modification at mid-rapidity in p-Pb collisions at $$\mathbf{\sqrt{ { s}_{\text {NN}}}= 5.02}$$ s NN = 5.02 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2017)
Charged-particle multiplicity distributions over a wide pseudorapidity range in proton-proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=$$ s = 0.9, 7, and 8 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2019)
Energy dependence of exclusive $$\mathrm {J}/\psi $$ photoproduction off protons in ultra-peripheral p-Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_{\mathrm {\scriptscriptstyle NN}}} = 5.02$$ TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Acharya S
(2019)
Relative particle yield fluctuations in $$\text{ Pb--Pb }$$ Pb--Pb collisions at $$\sqrt{s_\mathrm{ {NN}}} =2.76\hbox { TeV}$$ s NN = 2.76 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
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
(2018)
Anisotropic flow in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Exploration of jet substructure using iterative declustering in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Search for collectivity with azimuthal J/?-hadron correlations in high multiplicity p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 and 8.16 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Measurement of jet radial profiles in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Study of the ?-? interaction with femtoscopy correlations in p p and p-Pb collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Longitudinal asymmetry and its effect on pseudorapidity distributions in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Constraints on jet quenching in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV measured by the event-activity dependence of semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the charged-particle multiplicity density in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Direct photon elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
? suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
H ? 3 and H ? ? ? 3 lifetime measurement in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV via two-body decay
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Inclusive J/? production in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Coherent J/? photoproduction at forward rapidity in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
First measurement of ? c 0 production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Analysis of the apparent nuclear modification in peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Multiplicity dependence of (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Dielectron and heavy-quark production in inelastic and high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2017)
Measuring K S 0 K ± interactions using Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2017)
Linear and non-linear flow mode in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Measurement of strange baryon-antibaryon interactions with femtoscopic correlations
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
? c + production in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Transverse momentum spectra and nuclear modification factors of charged particles in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Azimuthally-differential pion femtoscopy relative to the third harmonic event plane in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Multiplicity dependence of light (anti-)nuclei production in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Evidence of rescattering effect in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC through production of K ( 892 ) 0 ? and ?(1020) mesons
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Constraining the magnitude of the Chiral Magnetic Effect with Event Shape Engineering in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Measurement of Z0-boson production at large rapidities in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Measuring K S 0 K ± interactions using pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2017)
J/? Elliptic Flow in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Acharya S
(2019)
Measurement of ?(1S) Elliptic Flow at Forward Rapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Acharya S
(2019)
First Observation of an Attractive Interaction between a Proton and a Cascade Baryon.
in Physical review letters
Acharya S
(2019)
Azimuthal Anisotropy of Heavy-Flavor Decay Electrons in p-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Acharya S
(2019)
Investigations of Anisotropic Flow Using Multiparticle Azimuthal Correlations in pp, p-Pb, Xe-Xe, and Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC.
in Physical review letters
Acharya S
(2018)
D-Meson Azimuthal Anisotropy in Midcentral Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s]_{NN}=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ST/N504142/1 | 01/10/2015 | 31/03/2021 | |||
1796881 | Studentship | ST/N504142/1 | 01/10/2016 | 31/05/2020 | Christopher Hills |
Description | ALICE guide visits |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Visits for public to ALICE detector at CERN , ongoing program done at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |