Speaker
Diego Stocco
(Subatech)
Description
The main goal of the ALICE experiment is the study of the properties of the strongly-interacting matter at very high energy density which is formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. Heavy-flavours (charm and beauty) have an important role in the investigation: being produced in the early stage of the collision, they are sensitive probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma and allow one to study the parton-medium interaction.
The ALICE experiment measured heavy-flavour production in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV in different decay channels and rapidity ranges. After a short description of the ALICE muon spectrometer, the latest results of open heavy-flavour measurements in the semi-muonic decay channels at forward rapidities (2.5<y<4) will be presented. A particular emphasis will be placed on the measurement of the nuclear modification factor as a function of transverse momentum and centrality, with respect to a pp reference at the same center of mass energy.
Primary author
Diego Stocco
(Subatech)
