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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 1 Heavy Flavour in ALICE Federico Antinori (INFN Padova & CERN) for the ALICE Collaboration
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 2Contents The LHC, Heavy Flavours and ALICE The LHC, Heavy Flavours and ALICE or “ALICE in Wonderland” or “ALICE in Wonderland” Benchmark channels Benchmark channels D 0 K - + D 0 K - + B e + X B e + X B µ + X B µ + X Additional measurements under investigation Additional measurements under investigation D + K - + + D + K - + + B J/ + X B J/ + X v 2 v 2 D s D s b tagged jets b tagged jets Coming up: pp Coming up: pp Conclusion Conclusion
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 3 The LHC, Heavy Flavours and ALICE
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 4 LHC Running conditions: Running conditions: + other ions (Sn, Kr, O) & energies (e.g.: pp @ 5.5 TeV) + other ions (Sn, Kr, O) & energies (e.g.: pp @ 5.5 TeV) *L max (ALICE) = 10 31 ** L int (ALICE) ~ 0.5 nb -1 /year Collision system √s NN (TeV) L 0 (cm -2 s -1 ) Run time (s/year) geom (b) pp14.0 10 34 * 10 7 0.07 PbPb5.5 10 27 10 6 ** 7.7 pPb8.8 10 29 10 6 1.9 ArAr6.3 10 29 10 6 2.7
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 5 Heavy Flavour @ LHC cc and bb rates cc and bb rates ALICE PPR (NTLO + shadowing) ALICE PPR (NTLO + shadowing) 115 / 4.6 0.65 / 0.85 6.6 / 0.2 Pb-Pb 5.5 TeV (5% cent) 0.16 / 0.007 1 / 1 11.2 / 0.5 pp 14 TeV shadowingsystem NN x-sect (mb) total multiplicity PbPb pp PbPb pp cc bb PbPb/pp
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 6 large cross-sections large cross-sections low-x (a field of its own!) low-x (a field of its own!) accessible x1, x2 regions in the ALICE experiment central detector muon arm
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 7 study medium with probes of known colour charge and mass study medium with probes of known colour charge and mass e.g.: energy loss by gluon radiation expected to be: parton-specific: stronger for gluons than quarks (colour charge ratio = 9/4) parton-specific: stronger for gluons than quarks (colour charge ratio = 9/4) flavour-specific: stronger for lighter than for heavier quarks (dead-cone effect) flavour-specific: stronger for lighter than for heavier quarks (dead-cone effect) study effect of medium on fragmentation (no extra production of c, b at hadronization) study effect of medium on fragmentation (no extra production of c, b at hadronization) independent string fragmentation vs recombination e.g.: D + s /D + e.g.: D + s /D + + measurement important for quarkonium physics + measurement important for quarkonium physics open QQ production natural normalization for quarkonium studies open QQ production natural normalization for quarkonium studies B meson decays non negligible source of non-prompt J/ at LHC B meson decays non negligible source of non-prompt J/ at LHC
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 8 Large suppression at RHIC! yet, region above 3-4 GeV expected to be dominated by beauty... yet, region above 3-4 GeV expected to be dominated by beauty... [Xin Dong@QM05] n.p. electrons ~ as suppressed as expected for c only (no b) n.p. electrons ~ as suppressed as expected for c only (no b) scaled to M. Cacciari et al., hep-ph/0502203 [J.Bielcik @QM05] disentangling c/b is a must! disentangling c/b is a must! e.g. full reconstruction of D vertices e.g. full reconstruction of D vertices non phot. el.
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 9 By the way: the factor 9/4? energy loss should be proportional to: C R = 4/3 for q, = 3 for g energy loss should be proportional to: C R = 4/3 for q, = 3 for g at RHIC, at 6-8 GeV p T : x ~ 10 -1 at RHIC, at 6-8 GeV p T : x ~ 10 -1 large quark contribution also for light flavours? at LHC, at same p T : x ~ a few 10 -4 at LHC, at same p T : x ~ a few 10 -4 quark contribution negligible
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11/2006 PSI J. Schukraft 10 ALICE Set-up HMPID Muon Arm TRD PHOS PMD ITS TOF TPC Size: 16 x 26 meters Weight: 10,000 tons
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 11 ALICE Status Timeline: Timeline: Installation & commissioning ongoing Installation & commissioning ongoing Global commissioning in December & February (cosmics) Global commissioning in December & February (cosmics) April 2008 on: cosmics, then pp run (commissioning physics) April 2008 on: cosmics, then pp run (commissioning physics) followed by first Pb-Pb run (√s = 5.5 TeV, L = 5·10 25 cm -2 s -1 ) followed by first Pb-Pb run (√s = 5.5 TeV, L = 5·10 25 cm -2 s -1 ) Startup configuration: Startup configuration: complete: ITS, TPC, TOF, HMPID, muon arm, PMD, trigger dets (V0, T0, ZDC, Acorde) complete: ITS, TPC, TOF, HMPID, muon arm, PMD, trigger dets (V0, T0, ZDC, Acorde) partially complete: PHOS (3/5), TRD (5/18), DAQ/HLT (20-30%) partially complete: PHOS (3/5), TRD (5/18), DAQ/HLT (20-30%)
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 12 |η| < 0.9: B = 0.4 T TRD TPC ITS with: - Si pixel - Si drift - Si strip Tracking
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 13 longitudinal coverage: | | < 1 (tracking), | |<2 (multiplicity) Inner Tracking System (ITS)
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 14 ITS Installation
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 15 Silicon Pixel Detector (SPD) PIXEL CELL z: 425 m r : 50 m Two layers: r = 4 cm r = 7 cm 9.8 M
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 16 Expected resolution on track impact parameter track impact parameter (d 0 ) track impact parameter (d 0 )
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 17 Benchmark channels
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 18 D0 K-+D0 K-+D0 K-+D0 K-+ expected ALICE performance expected ALICE performance S/B ≈ 10 % S/B ≈ 10 % S/ (S+B) ≈ 40 (1 month Pb-Pb running) S/ (S+B) ≈ 40 (1 month Pb-Pb running) statistical. systematic. p T - differential
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 19 Beauty to electrons Expected ALICE performance (1 month Pb-Pb) Expected ALICE performance (1 month Pb-Pb) e ± identification from TRD and dE/dx in TPC e ± identification from TRD and dE/dx in TPC impact parameter from ITS impact parameter from ITS S/(S+B) S per 10 7 central Pb-Pb events
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 20 Electrons (from b) p t spectrum Error composition stat error stat syst error 11% from overall normalization not included
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 21 Expected performance on D, B R AA m b = 4.8 GeV D 0 K B e + X 1 year at nominal luminosity (10 7 central Pb-Pb events, 10 9 pp events) should clarify the heavy flavour quenching story should clarify the heavy flavour quenching story mass dependence colour charge dependence
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 22 Beauty to single muons expected in the muon arm expected in the muon arm very high statistics and heavy flavour purity expected low mass high mass
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 23 Beauty to dimuons Two main sources: Two main sources: Bµ + + D + X µ - + X B B X + µ + “BD SAME ”“BB DIFF ” Consistency check!
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 24 Additional measurements under investigation
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 25 D+ K-++D+ K-++D+ K-++D+ K-++ Preliminary study: performance comparable to that for D 0 K - + Preliminary study: performance comparable to that for D 0 K - + Pb-Pb significance ~ 30 (1 month)
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 26 Ds+Ds+Ds+Ds+ D s + as probe of hadronization? D s + as probe of hadronization? from string fragmentation: cs / cd ~ 1/3 from string fragmentation: cs / cd ~ 1/3 after decays: D s + (cs) / D + (cd) ~ 0.6 after decays: D s + (cs) / D + (cd) ~ 0.6 from recombination: cs / cd ~ N(s) / N(d) from recombination: cs / cd ~ N(s) / N(d) how large at LHC? experimentally accessible? experimentally accessible? D + (c ~ 310 µm) K - + + with BR ~ 9.2 % D + (c ~ 310 µm) K - + + with BR ~ 9.2 % in Alice: expect similar performance as for D 0 K - + in Alice: expect similar performance as for D 0 K - + D s + (c ~ 150 µm) K - K + + with BR ~ 4.4 % D s + (c ~ 150 µm) K - K + + with BR ~ 4.4 % but mostly resonant decays: + or K 0 * K + (non resonant only 20 %) but mostly resonant decays: + or K 0 * K + (non resonant only 20 %) favours bkgnd rejection (for D + K - + +, non-resonant ~ 96 %) may be well visible (expecially if D s + /D + is large!) Under study! Under study!
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 27 Heavy Flavour v 2 v 2 = azimuthal anisotropy elliptic flow v 2 = azimuthal anisotropy elliptic flow can get charm v 2 from can get charm v 2 from direct charm elliptic flow direct charm elliptic flow non-flowing c recombining with flowing matter non-flowing c recombining with flowing matter azimuthally dependent energy loss azimuthally dependent energy loss...?...? in general, v 2 0 if charm “strongly coupled” with azimuthally asymmetric medium...
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 28 Non photonic el. v2 @ RHIC to what extent can one accommodate small v 2 with large suppression? to what extent can one accommodate small v 2 with large suppression? [S.Butsyk@QM`05] [Xin Dong@QM05]
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 29 Reconstructed D v 2 at LHC? Full reconstruction of D decays at LHC Full reconstruction of D decays at LHC qualitatively different measurement from non-photonic electrons! qualitatively different measurement from non-photonic electrons! better correlation with original heavy-quark momentum better correlation with original heavy-quark momentum b vs c b vs c First indications from preliminary studies in ALICE: expected error ~ few % (D v 2 ) First indications from preliminary studies in ALICE: expected error ~ few % (D v 2 )
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30 B J/ + X More “exclusive” than B e/µ + X More “exclusive” than B e/µ + X better handle on B momentum distribution better handle on B momentum distribution Preliminary pp study: pseudoproper decay time Preliminary pp study: pseudoproper decay time (à la CDF) CDF (data) ALICE (prelim. simulation) p T >0
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 31 Heavy flavour jets? 2 GeV 20 GeV 100 GeV 200 GeV Mini-Jets 100/event 1/event 100k/month Well visible event-by-event! e.g. 100 GeV jet + underlying event Well visible event-by-event! e.g. 100 GeV jet + underlying event For high energy jets: Nb ~ Nu,d For high energy jets: Nb ~ Nu,d heavy flavour rich! b-tagged jets? b-tagged jets? study quenching of b jets! Preliminary look: impact parameter tagging looks promising (full simulation needed)
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 32 Coming up: pp
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 33 Example: D 0 in pp D 0 K - + D 0 K - + 1 year run ~ 10 9 events 1 year run ~ 10 9 events ~ 20 shifts, 10 hrs each a few 10 7 events ~ 20 shifts, 10 hrs each a few 10 7 events reach out to 12 GeV or so
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 34 Example: B e + X in pp electron id in TRD and TPC, electron impact parameter from ITS electron id in TRD and TPC, electron impact parameter from ITS
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Federico Antinori - LBNL Heavy Quark Workshop - 3 November 2007 35Conclusion Heavy flavours kindly provide us with a very promising tool to study the properties of the strongly interacting medium produced in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions Heavy flavours kindly provide us with a very promising tool to study the properties of the strongly interacting medium produced in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions At LHC At LHC very high rates very high rates very extended p T range very extended p T range well developed jets well developed jets ALICE is well equipped for heavy flavour physics ALICE is well equipped for heavy flavour physics
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