ALICE potential for heavy-flavour physics

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where lead nuclei will collide at the unprecedented c.m.s. energy of 5.5 TeV per nucleon-nucleon pair, will offer new and unique opportunities for the study of the properties of strongly interacting matter at high energy density over extended volumes. We will briefly explain why heavy-flavour particles are well-suited tools for such a study and we will describe how the ALICE experiment is preparing to make use of these tools.

6 pages, 3 figures, prepared for the Proceedings of "Strange Quark Matter 2007", Levoca, Slovakia

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