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
Acharya S
(2018)
Inclusive J/? production in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Measurement of ? ( 1 S ) Elliptic Flow at Forward Rapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV
in Physical Review Letters
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
(2019)
Measuring K S 0 K ± interactions using pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2017)
Searches for transverse momentum dependent flow vector fluctuations in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at the LHC
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Acharya S
(2019)
Charged jet cross section and fragmentation in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Acharya S
(2018)
Neutral pion and ? meson production at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Acharya S
(2019)
Direct photon elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2017)
Kaon femtoscopy in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review 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
(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)
Anisotropic flow 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)
Production of deuterons, tritons, He 3 nuclei, and their antinuclei in p p collisions at s = 0.9 , 2.76, and 7 TeV
in Physical Review 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
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
Andrews H
(2019)
Exploring the Phase Space of Jet Splittings at ALICE using Grooming and Recursive Techniques
in Nuclear Physics A
Bailhache R
(2019)
Dielectron measurements in pp and Pb-Pb colllisions with ALICE at the LHC
in Nuclear Physics A
Behera N
(2019)
Higher moment fluctuations of identified particle distributions from ALICE
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
Colocci M
(2019)
Constraining production models with light (anti-)nuclei measurements in small systems with ALICE at the LHC
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
Dillenseger P
(2019)
Quarkonium measurements in nucleus-nucleus collisions with ALICE
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
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 |