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Strange and Non-Strange D-meson Production in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb Collisions with ALICE at the LHC

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Authors:
  1. Fabrizio Grosa

    1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Torino, Italy

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  • Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by CERN, Geneva
  • Winner of best thesis award of the ALICE Collaboration at the CERN LHC
  • Gives a comprehensive view of heavy-flavour hadrons in high-energy nuclear physics

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction to High-Energy Nuclear Physics

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 1-20

  3. Open Heavy-Flavour Physics

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 21-35

  4. ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 37-54

  5. \(\mathrm { D^+}\) and \(\mathrm { D_s^+}\) Reconstruction Strategy in pp, p–Pb and Pb–Pb Collisions

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 55-69

  6. \(\varvec{{\text {D}_\text {s}^+}}\) Production Cross Section in pp Collisions at \(\varvec{\sqrt{s}=5.02~\mathrm {TeV}}\)

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 71-103

  7. \({{\text {D}_\text {s}^+}}\) and \({\varvec{+}}\) Nuclear Modification Factors in Pb–Pb and p–Pb Collisions at \(\varvec{{\sqrt{s_\mathrm {NN}}}=5.02~{\mathrm {TeV}}}\)

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 105-146

  8. \({\mathrm{D}^+}\) Elliptic Flow in \(\text{ Pb--Pb }\) Collisions at \(\varvec{\sqrt{s_\mathrm {NN}}=5.02~\mathrm {TeV}}\)

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 147-175

  9. \(\varvec{\mathrm { D^+}}\) Event-Shape Engineering Studies in Pb–Pb Collisions at \(\varvec{\sqrt{s_\mathrm {NN}}}=5.02~\mathrm {TeV}\)

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 177-208

  10. Conclusions and Perspectives

    • Fabrizio Grosa
    Pages 209-215
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About this book

This thesis provides a comprehensive view of the physics of charmed hadrons in high-energy proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions. Given their large masses, charm quarks are produced in the early stage of a heavy-ion collision and they subsequently experience the full system evolution probing the colour-deconfined medium called quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in such collisions. In this thesis, the mechanisms of charm-quark in-medium energy loss and hadronisation are discussed via the measurements of the production of charm mesons with (Ds+) and without (D+) strange-quark content in different colliding systems, using data collected by the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. The participation of the charm quark and its possible thermalisation in the QGP are studied via measurements of azimuthal anisotropies in the production of D+ mesons. Finally, the prospects for future measurements with the upgraded ALICE experimental apparatus and with more refined machine learning techniques are presented.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Torino, Italy

    Fabrizio Grosa

About the author

Since March 2020 the author has been a research fellow at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Torino. He is one of the two coordinators of the physics analysis group of the ALICE Collaboration devoted to the measurement of charm and beauty hadrons. He obtained his Masters degree in Physics in 2016 at the Università degli Studi di Torino and his Ph.D. in February 2020 at the Politecnico di Torino. During his Ph.D. he was responsible for the software for the alignment and assembly procedures of the upgraded silicon detector of the ALICE experiment.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Strange and Non-Strange D-meson Production in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb Collisions with ALICE at the LHC

  • Authors: Fabrizio Grosa

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71131-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71130-6Published: 18 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71133-7Published: 18 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71131-3Published: 17 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 215

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 125 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Cosmology

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