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
(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
(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
(2019)
? c + production in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 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
Trogolo S
(2019)
Addressing the hypertriton lifetime puzzle with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Gajdošová K
(2019)
ALICE measurements of flow coefficients and their correlations in small (pp and p-Pb) and large (Xe-Xe and Pb-Pb) collision systems
in Nuclear Physics A
Kim B
(2019)
ALICE results on system-size dependence of charged-particle multiplicity density in p-Pb, Pb-Pb and Xe-Xe collisions
in Nuclear Physics A
Acharya S
(2019)
Analysis of the apparent nuclear modification in peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Anisotropic flow in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
(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
Pan J
(2019)
Balance functions of (un)identified hadrons in Pb-Pb, p-Pb, and pp collisions at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Acharya S
(2019)
Calibration of the photon spectrometer PHOS of the ALICE experiment
in Journal of Instrumentation
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)
Charged jet cross section and fragmentation in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
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)
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
(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
(2019)
Coherent J/? photoproduction at forward rapidity in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Colocci M
(2019)
Constraining production models with light (anti-)nuclei measurements in small systems with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
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)
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
(2018)
D-Meson Azimuthal Anisotropy in Midcentral Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s]_{NN}=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Acharya S
(2019)
Dielectron and heavy-quark production in inelastic and high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Bailhache R
(2019)
Dielectron measurements in pp and Pb-Pb colllisions with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Acharya S
(2019)
Direct photon elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Sas M
(2019)
Direct photon elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Nuclear Physics A
Acharya S
(2019)
Direct photon production at low transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at s = 2.76 and 8 TeV
in Physical Review C
Tarhini M
(2019)
Electroweak boson measurements in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Pacík V
(2019)
Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in small collisional systems measured with ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
Tripathy S
(2019)
Energy dependence of ?(1020) production at mid-rapidity in pp collisions with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
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
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
Bencédi G
(2019)
Event-shape- and multiplicity-dependent identified particle production in pp collisions at 13 TeV with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
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
(2020)
Exploration of jet substructure using iterative declustering in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies
in Physics Letters B
Hosokawa R
(2019)
Exploring jet profiles in Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector
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
Lorenzo A
(2019)
f0(980) resonance production in pp collisions with the ALICE detector at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Acharya S
(2018)
First measurement of ? c 0 production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
First Observation of an Attractive Interaction between a Proton and a Cascade Baryon.
in Physical review letters
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
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
Dubla A
(2019)
Heavy-flavour hadron decay leptons in Pb-Pb and Xe-Xe collisions at the LHC with ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
Behera N
(2019)
Higher moment fluctuations of identified particle distributions from ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
Acharya S
(2018)
Inclusive J/? production in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Ohlson A
(2019)
Investigating correlated fluctuations of conserved charges with net-? fluctuations in Pb-Pb collisions at ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
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
(2017)
J/? Elliptic Flow in 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 |