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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 45: Postersession

HK 45.27: Poster

Mittwoch, 16. März 2016, 18:30–20:30, S1/05 22-24

Measurement of Neutral Pions in pp collisions at 8 TeV with the ALICE EMCAL — •Adrian Mechler — Institut für Kernphysik, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

The ALICE experiment investigates the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) which is believed to be produced in Pb-Pb collisions at high center-of-mass energies. Hadron production measurements in pp collisions provide information about particle production through QCD processes. Furthermore, they provide an important baseline for heavy-ion collisions.

This analysis focuses on the measurement of neutral pions (π⁰) which are reconstructed via their dominant two photon decay. In the ALICE experiment, the EMCAL calorimeter is used to measure the position and energy of these photons.

We will present the status of an ongoing π⁰ analysis in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV. Different analysis steps such as the yield extraction and corrections for the detector response will be discussed.