Performance and First Physics Results of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer

Abstract

A precise measurement of the heavy-flavor production cross-sections in pp collisions is an essential baseline for the heavy-ion program. In addition it is a crucial test of pQCD models in the new energy regime at LHC. ALICE measures the muons from the decay of charmonium resonances and from the semileptonic decay of heavy-flavored hadrons in its forward (-4.0 $<$ $\eta$ $<$ -2.5) Muon Spectrometer. We discuss the status of the detector and present results of data taken in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=7 TeV.

8 pages and 6 figues. Proceedings for 6th International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark Gluon Plasma (ICPAQGP 2010), Goa, India

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