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Measurement of coherent J/Psi production in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions with the ALICE detector at the LHC

3 Dec 2012, 16:30
30m
Protea Kruger Gate Hotel

Protea Kruger Gate Hotel

Kruger Park South Africa

Speaker

Dr Guillermo Contreras (CVUT Praga)

Description

Ultra-relativistic heavy ions generate strong electromagnetic fields which offer the possibility to study gamma--gamma and gamma-nucleus processes at the LHC in the so called ultra-peripheral collisions (UPC). The coherent photoproduction of J/Psi vector mesons in UPC is sensitive to the gluon distribution of the interacting nuclei. Here we report on ALICE results of J/Psi coherent production measured in PbPb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV where the J/Psi has been measured in the mu mu decay channel with the Alice Muon Spectrometer in the rapidity range -3.6
Presentation Type Talk

Primary author

Dr Guillermo Contreras (CVUT Praga)

Presentation Materials