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The ALICE Experiment Status and Results. David Evans The University of Birmingham HEP Forum – 20 th September 2010. Outline of Talk. Brief introduction Detector status and performance Physics Analysis Plans for Pb-Pb collisions Summary. Physics Motivations. Study of QCD
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The ALICE ExperimentStatus and Results David Evans The University of Birmingham HEP Forum – 20th September 2010
Outline of Talk • Brief introduction • Detector status and performance • Physics Analysis • Plans for Pb-Pb collisions • Summary
Physics Motivations • Study of QCD • In particular QCD phase transition from hadronic matter to Quark-Gluon Plasma • Detector designed to cope with extreme environment of Pb-Pb collisions • Excellent tracking, particle ID etc • Play-off: limited interaction rate • pp for baseline – also ALICE is an excellent detector for studying global event properties of pp collisions, cross-sections etc. • No good for rare events – Higgs, SUSY etc.
UK-built Central Trigger Processor (CTP) Delivers L0, L1 and L2 triggers Detector Overview • Optimised for PbPb collisions: • High granularity (dN/dy~8000) • Minimised material 4
Detector Configuration 2010 • ITS, TPC, TOF, HMPID, MUON, V0, T0, FMD, PMD, ZDC (100%) • TRD (7/18) • EMCAL (4/12) • PHOS (3/5) • HLT (60%) full hadron and muon capabilities partial electron and photon Size: 16 x 26 metres Weight: 10,000 tons Collaboration: > 1000 members > 100 institutes > 30 countries 5
TPC acceptance = 90% Momentum resolution ~ 5% @ 100 GeV ALICE Performance Low material budget low pt cut off
Trigger and Data Samples • Minimum bias trigger: at least one charged particle in 8 units of (all ALICE is read out) • SPD or V0A or V0C • Single-muon trigger (Muon chambers, SPD, V0, FMD, ZDC are read out). • Muon trigger in coincidence with “minimum bias” • Both above in coincidence with the beam pickup counters (BPTX) • A fraction of “bunch-crossing” triggers (just BPTX) • for control • to measure relative fractions of single- and double-diffractive events • High multiplicity trigger from SPD • study of very high multiplicity events (B’ham) February – March cosmic-ray data taking ~ 105 events pp run since 30th March 2010 0.9 TeV ~ 7 x 106 events 7 TeV ~ 600 x 106 events
Detector Performance TPC only
Physics Analysis First LHC physics paper First LHC high-energy physics paper • 5 papers published – accepted • Charged-particle density in 900 GeV pp collisions • K. Aamodt et al. (ALICE), Eur. Phys. J C 65 (2010) 111 • Charged-particle multiplicity in 0.9 and 2.36 pp collisions • arXiv:1004.3034[hep-ph] accepted in Eur. Phys. J C • Charged-particle multiplicity in 7 TeV pp collision – letter • arXiv:1004.3514[hep-ph] accepted in Eur. Phys. J C • Measurement of antiproton/proton ratio in pp at 0.9 and 7 TeV • Phys.Rev.Lett Vol 105, No 7 (2010) • Charged-particle transverse momentum spectra at 0.9 TeV • http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0719, Phys. Lett. B • 1 paper submitted • Identical particle correlation in pp at 0.9 TeV • http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0516, Phys. Rev. D • 2 papers in draft • Identified charged hadron spectra and yields in pp at 0.9 TeV • Strange particle production in pp at 0.9 TeV • Other analyses well underway • High multiplicity pp events, azimuthal correlations, event structure, p0 spectra, charm production,...
Birmingham Analysis Focus • Trigger corrections • First pp physics (helped with first paper) • Diffractive physics • Study of very high multiplicity pp events at 7 TeV • High-pT correlations • Preparing for Pb-Pb
dNch/dh versus √s Relative increase in dNch/dh Inelastic Nch ≥ 1 in |h|<1 dNch/dh versus√s ALICE CMS all Inelastic NonSingleDiffractive fits ~ s0.1 Results: - dNch/dh well described by power law (√s)0.2 • increase with energy significantly stronger in data than MC’s • Alice & CMS agree to within 1 s (< 3%) 11
Multiplicity distribution ALICE CMS Multiplicity distribution 900 GeV Multiplicity distribution 7 TeV Results: • most of the ‘stronger increase’ is in the tail of Nch • ALICE & CMS still agree perfectly ! 12
Momentum distribution 900 GeV Comparison to MC’s <pT>versus√s pT distribution Results: • Finally some (slight) difference ! • Spectrum seems to get harder towards midrapidity • MC’s have hard time to describe the full spectrum 13
<pT> versus multiplicity <pT> vs Nch pT for different multiplicities arXiv:1007.0719 arXiv:1007.0719 Results: • Change concentrated at pt > 1 GeV (pQCD) • (surprisingly little change below ) • MC’s have hard time… •Perugia-0 (fails for multiplicity) describes well <pT>, but only for pT>500 MeV/c (ATLAS found agreement for pT > 500 MeV/c) 14
MC scoreboard Conclusion: • none of the tested MC’s (adjusted at lower energy) does really well • tuning one or two results is easy, getting everything right will require more effort • (and may, with some luck, actually teach us something on soft QCD rather than only turning knobs) 15 15
pbar/p at mid-rapidity Baryon number transport by di-quark and/or a string junction Study pbar/p d u u u d u Traditional String junction • - Conventional approach: QGSM • pbar/p y asymmetry ~ 0 at LHC energies • (di-quark f.f. exponentially suppressed for large y • Different fragmentation functions • G.C. Rossi and G. Veneziano, Nucl Phys. B123(1997)507 • exponentially suppressed, intercept model dependent • Kopeliovich, Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 45, 1078(1987) • Probability constant with rapidity u d J u
pbar/p vs MCs Possible to check measurement compatibility with several models Monte-Carlo Scoreboard (part II) Green: MC ~ data Blue: MC << data
Bose–Einstein correlations (HBT) QM enhancement of identical Bosons at small momentum difference enhancement of e.g. like-sign pions at low momentum difference qinv=|p1-p2|, as function of multiplicity and pair momentum kT = |pT1+pT2|/2 measure Space-Time evolution of the ‘dense matter’ system in heavy ions coll. interpretation in ‘small systems’ (pp, e+e-) is less obvious.. BE enhancement vs qINV BE enhancement vs qINV pp Pb+Au unlike sign p+p- high Nch, kT high multiplicity high momentum radius ~ 1/width (Phojet) baseline low multiplicity low momentum kT 18
HBT @ 900 GeV Source Radius vs pair momentum Using different Baselines Source Radius vs Multiplicity • Results: • Radius increases with Nch, comparable to ISR, RHIC, TeV • rather constant vs <kT> ! • sign. systematic uncertainty from ‘baseline’ shape • dependence usually interpreted as sign of ‘flow’ in heavy ions • neglecting non-BE correlations (‘flat baseline’) can cause kT dependence (at high √ s)! Hot Matter-26/08/2010, ALICE physics, P. Kuijer, NIKHEF 19
Decays: K0S, L, X, f at 900 GeV * X + X → L p L → p p K0S → pp • Preliminary results: • MC well below Data • more so at high pT • more so for L & X • f ~ ok (at least some MC) f → K K * 2009 Data (~300 k events) 21
L/K0Sratio 900 GeV |h| < 1 • very good agreement between STAR (200 GeV) and ALICE (900 GeV) • very different from CDF (630/1800) and UA1 (630) for pT > 1.5 GeV • - UA1(630) and CDF(630) don’t agree either … • to be further investigated (different triggers, acceptance, feed-down correction ?) 22
, , , *0, k*0, 0, at 7 TeV *0 0 - EMCAL k*0 - 0 PHOS 0 & K+K-
Charm at 7 TeV D0→ K p p p Impact Parameter Resolution vs pT D+→ K p p D*→ D0 p 80 mm @ 1 GeV D0→ K p 24
Charm at very low pT 2 GeV D0 cross section vs pT in |y| < 1 FONLL pQCD calculation • most of the cross section at low pT • shape at low pT very uncertain • 109 MB events => measure below 1 GeV • (PID important at low pT !) 26
J/y @ 7 TeV e PID from TPC || < 0.9 TRD & EMCAL calibration ongoing J/ +- , -4 < < -2.5
J/y → m+m- <pT2> vs √ s <pT> vs √ s 28
High pT and Jets Charged-track jets raw spectra at 0.9 and 7 TeV || < 0.5 4 jet algorithms compared uncorrected
High pT particle correlations Trigger particle – highest pT particle in event Associated particle: all the others
High Multiplicity Events • Activity started by B’ham • Highest multiplicity events in pp at 7 TeV similar to lighter ion-ion collisions at SPS • Could suggest high energy densities • Look for evidence of QGP in highest multiplicity events – or any other strange physics • Special high multiplicity trigger (developed by B’ham • Need to understand and reject pileup as this is significant at high mult. • Analysis ongoing High Multiplicity pp event at 7 TeV
Planned quick PbPb analysis • Expect 2 weeks of Pb tuning • Followed by 2 weeks of Pb_Pb physics collisions • Can do a lot with just a few 100k events • Much high stats in 2011 – we hope. Wait until November for PbPb multiplicity v2 pT (RAA, RCP) HBT high pT correlations 32
Summary • 2010 running very successful • All detector, online and offline systems working well • Alignment and calibration under control • About 600 million 7 TeV events collected • Physics analysis well underway • 6 papers published or submitted • others on the way • Preparations for Pb collisions this November well underway • ALICE has got off to a great start and we look forward to some new and interesting physics from the Pb data.