Prospects for strangeness measurement in ALICE

Abstract

The study of strangeness production at LHC will bring significant information on the bulk chemical properties, its dynamics and the hadronisation mechanisms involved at these energies. The ALICE experiment will measure strange particles from topology (secondary vertices) and from resonance decays over a wide range in transverse momentum and shed light on this new QCD regime. These motivations will be presented as well as the identification performance of ALICE for strange hadrons.

12 pages, 11 figures Proceedings of the Workshop on Relativistic Nuclear Physics (WRNP) 2007, Kiev, Ukraine Conference Info: http://wrnp2007.bitp.kiev.ua/ Submitted to "Physics of Atomic Nuclei"

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