First identified particle studies at the CERN-LHC with the ALICE experiment
Panos Christakogloua,b
for the ALICE Collaboration
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a NIKHEFb Utrecht University
Outline
The ALICE experiment at LHCo Experimental setupo PID design performance
Commissioning of the PID detectorso Results from the ITSo Results from the TPCo Results from the TOF
First physics measurementso Identified particle spectrao Baryon number transport
Conclusion
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Experimental setup
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PID in ALICE
PID for hadrons in the central barrel (|η| < 0.9)o ITS: Excellent (3σ) separation from ~50 MeV/c for πo TPC: π from 200 MeV/c, Κ from 300 MeV/co TOF: K up to 2.5 GeV/c, p up to 3.5 GeV/co HMPID: intermediate to high momenta
Photons with the dedicated spectrometer (PHOS) Electrons in the central barrel:
o ITS + TPC for low momentumo TRD from P ~ 1GeV/c (beauty measurements feasible even @1GeV/c!)
Muons reconstructed in the forward region (muon arm: -4 < η < -2.4)
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PID – momentum reach
ITS commissioning
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Design goalso Optimal resolution for primary vertex
and track impact parameter Minimize distance of innermost layer from
beam axis (<r>≈ 3.9 cm) and material budget
o Maximum occupancy (central PbPb) < few %
o dE/dx information in the 4 outermost layers for particle ID in 1/β2 region
Installed in 2007. Successfully commissioned during the
cosmics runs in 2008 and 2009.
Layer Det. Type
Radius (cm)
Length (cm)
Resolution (m) PbPb dN/dy=6000
r Z Part./cm2 Occupancy (%)
1 SPD 3.9 28.2 12 100 35 2.1
2 SPD 7.6 28.2 12 100 12 0.6
3 SDD 15.0 44.4 35 25 3 2.5
4 SDD 23.9 59.4 35 25 1.5 1.0
5 SSD 38.0 86.2 20 830 0.6 4.0
6 SSD 43.0 97.8 20 830 0.45 3.3
ITS alignment
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First order alignment with cosmics using the SPD triggero Coincidence between top outer SPD layer and bottom outer SPD layer (rate: 0.18 Hz)
Preliminary results show:o Space point resolution for the
SPD of ~14 μm in rφ (matching between upper and lower part of a track).
o Residual misalignment spread of the SSD modules on the ladders of ~5μm
Outlook:o Inclusion of the SDDo Alignment with magnetic
field with beams (pt dependence).
ALICE collaboration 2010 JINST 5 P03003
ITS calibration and PID (SDD + SSD)
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Charge distribution measured on all the SDD moduleso ~95% of the detector included in the
readout during data taking Charge distribution measured on all
the SSD moduleso 90% of the detector active in 2009o <1.5% bad stripso S/N ~40
dE/dx resolution ~ 13%
Main TPC characteristicso Cylindrical in shape, with an active
volume that has an inner radius of about 85 cm, an outer radius of about 250 cm, and an overall length along the beam direction of 500 cm (largest TPC ever built)
o Cylindrical field cage filled with ~90 m3 of Ne/CO2/N2 gas mixture (90:10:5)
o Drift time of ~90 μso Many (>90) 3D points (+dE/dx) per
track Since August 2009 more than 750
million events (cosmics, krypton, and laser) recorded, with and without B-field.o First round of calibrations (dE/dx,
momentum, alignment, gain) completed before collisions.
TPC commissioning
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J. Alme et al. (ALICE TPC), arXiv:1001.1950 (subm. to NIM)
TPC particle identification
dE/dx resolution ~ 5%
September 2009
December 2009
TOF
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18 sectors, 2π covering in |η| < 0.9
Granularity: 2.5x3.5 cm2 at ∼3.7 m from the primary vertex;
Resolution at present ∼130 ps (calibration only from cosmic rays)
Analysis details
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Event Selection
Online Trigger Yes
Offline Trigger Yes
|Vz| <10
|Vx| <1
|Vy| <1
Track Selection – Primary like cuts
dca 0.2 - 2.0 cm
Track Selection – Quality cuts
Number of TPC clusters 80
Number of TPC clusters (dE/dx) 80
x2/NTPCclusters 3.5
Number of ITS clusters 2
Hit on SPD1 || SPD2 Yes
Analysis of the p+p events collected during the first LHC run in DecemberAccepted events: 250K
Hadron spectra – π, Κ, p
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Subtract measured signal (dE/dx or tof) from the expected one for each pt bin Yields extracted from a fit with a convolution of three Gaussians Compare results with a simple 3σ cut
ITS
TPC
TOF
Hadron spectra - π, Κ, p (cont).
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ITS points to be added: new reconstruction pass based on the latest calibration constants (SDD) Excellent agreement between TPC and TOF in the overlap regions: max. difference of 6%
K± from Kinks
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K
K
eK
K
K
π- kinks
M. Spyropoulou-Stassinaki, P. Ganoti, A. Belogianni, F. Roukoutakis
Preliminary results in good agreement with the K± spectra obtained from the dE/dx and TOF PID
(99%)
Baryon number transport – Motivation
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Who is the carrier of the baryon number?o Valence quarks: G.C. Rossi and G. Veneziano, Nucl. Phys B123 (1977) 507.o Gluonic field: B.Z. Kopeliovich and B. Zakharov, Z. Phys. C43 (1989) 241.
Different approaches based on theory:o QGSM considers the baryon as a bound quark-diquark state. BN transport implies
breaking the diquark pair.o Gluonic mechanism aka String Junction (SJ). BN transport implies the stopping of the
SJ.
u
u
d u
u
d
Conventional approach - QGSM
Within QGSM one expects an asymmetry ~0 at LHC energies No BN transported at mid-rapidity from the fragmentation region
du
u
SJ
String Junction
P(y) ~ e a J y
P(y)const
BN transport even at large rapidity gaps (large energies). Veneziano: Probability exponentially suppressed (aJ: SJ intercept – model dependent) Kopeliovich: Probability constant with rapidity
LHC’s large rapidity gap between the incoming protons (yp = ±9.6) will give us the opportunity to distinguish between the different models.
Baryon number transport – Experimental results
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BRAHMS: Phys. Lett. B607 (2005) 42
p+p - Au+Au @√s = 200GeV
p+p Au+Au 20% central PYTHIAHIJING-B
STAR: Phys.Rev.Lett.86 (2001) 4778
Lessons from RHIC
A. Falkiewicz: DIS2008, London
Lessons from HERA
Proton excess at mid-rapidity can be attributed to the BN transport from the beam at RHIC energies
No sign of any rapidity or pt dependence
PYTHIA systematically overestimates the proton ratio
HIJING-B describes the experimental data
Initially reported an asymmetry of ~8% for Δy ~ 7.o Results never
published due to large systematic uncertainties caused by the high beam-gas rate.
Results reported at the DIS2008 are compatible with an asymmetry for Λs ~0
Baryon number transport – Corrections (I)
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Apply corrections that don’t cancel out in the ratio:o Absorptiono Cross section in transport codeso Secondaries (mainly protons)
Np
N p
corrected
Np
N p
raw
Cabsorption p
(y, pt )
Cabsorption p (y, pt )
Ccross sec tion p
(y, pt )
Ccross sec tion p (y, pt )
Csecondaries p (y, pt )
Absorption
Extract corrections based on MC sample
Rely on the proper description of the material in the simulation
Rely on the interaction cross-section used in the transport code (GEANT3)
Baryon number transport – Corrections (II)
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Bendiscioli and Kharzeev, Riv.Nuovo Cim.17N6, 1-142 (1994)
Detailed study published in 2008: ALICE-INT-2008-010.v1
Scaling factor for the absorption corrections defined as εGEANT/εFLUKA
~2.5% decrease of the absorption correction
(pt )(pt )C(pt )
Baryon number transport – Corrections (III)
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Fit the dca distributions of primary antiprotons which are background free. Use the same function and fit the primary protons scaled by the ratio (free
parameter). Fit the dca distributions of secondaries (protons coming from the interaction
of particles with the material). Use the same fitting functions to fit the dca distributions from real data.
Baryon number transport – Results (I)
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Fully corrected ratio: stat. error – lines, syst. error – shaded are around data points
Preliminary results show no sign of any rapidity or pt dependence. Experimental points are compared with different model predictions that include
variation of BN transport mechanisms:o HIJING-B clearly underestimates the y dependence, whereas it predicts a decrease of the ratio
with increasing pt not seen in p+p collisions.
o QGSM’s (only y information) version with aSJ ≠ 0 is systematically below the data points
o The different PYTHIA tunes describe the data well.
Baryon number transport – Results (II)
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Mid-rapidity ratio for ALICE extracted by fitting the y dependence plot at |y| < 0.5.
Preliminary results show still a small excess of baryons over antibaryons (asymmetry of ~1.9%) at √s = 900 GeV/c.
ALICE is up and running!!!
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BACKUP
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Strangeness (Ks0)
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Strangeness (Λ)
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Cascades (Ξ)
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