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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 60: Schwerionenkollisionen und QCD Phasen

HK 60.4: Talk

Friday, March 23, 2012, 11:45–12:00, P 5

Open charm elliptic flow from hadronic decays of D-mesons — •Robert Grajcarek — University of Heidelberg, Physikalisches Institut,Philosophenweg 12, Heidelberg, Germany

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been built in order to identify and characterize the quark gluon plasma (QGP) created in high-energy nuclear collisions. As charm quarks are produced at the early stage of the collision, they serve as ideal probes for a QGP. It is still an open question whether charm quarks take part in the collective motion of the expanding fireball in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. The ALICE detector with its powerful capabilities such as particle identification, secondary vertexing at sub-millimeter precision and tracking in a high multiplicity environment addresses the charm sector in nuclear collisions.
We report latest news on the measurment of open charm elliptic flow.