Speaker
Dr
Stefania Bufalino
(Inst. for Scint. Materials of Nat. Acad. of Science of Ukraine)
Description
One of the main design goals of the ALICE experiment is hadron identification at mid-rapidity over a wide range of transverse momenta. Thanks to its excellent PID capabilities and pT coverage, ALICE offers an ideal test-bench for the measurement of transverse momentum distributions, dN/dy and <pT> of identified light flavor hadrons. In the present contribution those measurements are reported for pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC energies.
A particle mass dependent hardening of the spectral shapes is observed in Pb-Pb collisions and can be interpreted as due to hydrodynamical flow and may be quantitatively parameterized with Boltzmann-Gibbs Blast Wave fits. The study of the possible existence of collective phenomena in small systems such as pp, p-Pb and peripheral Pb-Pb is also presented showing that similar trends are observed for those systems in multiplicity dependent studies.
Primary author
Dr
Stefania Bufalino
(Inst. for Scint. Materials of Nat. Acad. of Science of Ukraine)
