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 |
Peter Jones (Primary Supervisor) | |
Emily Willsher (Student) |
Publications
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
Hosokawa R
(2019)
Exploring jet profiles in Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector
in Nuclear Physics A
Haque M
(2019)
Measurements of the chiral magnetic effect in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
Gasik P
(2019)
Upgrade of the ALICE central barrel tracking detectors: ITS and TPC
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
Dubla A
(2019)
Heavy-flavour hadron decay leptons in Pb-Pb and Xe-Xe collisions at the LHC with ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
Dillenseger P
(2019)
Quarkonium measurements in nucleus-nucleus collisions with ALICE
in Nuclear Physics A
Dash A
(2019)
Multiplicity dependence of strangeness and hadronic resonance production in pp and p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Colocci M
(2019)
Constraining production models with light (anti-)nuclei measurements in small systems with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
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
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ST/N503939/1 | 01/10/2015 | 30/03/2021 | |||
1843572 | Studentship | ST/N503939/1 | 01/10/2016 | 31/03/2020 | Emily Willsher |