Flow of strange and charm particles in Pb--Pb collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV measured with ALICE

Abstract

The ALICE experiment studies Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC in order to investigate the properties of the hot and dense QCD matter at extreme energy densities. Recent results from ALICE in identified particle flow allow for the exploration of the collective properties of the medium created in heavy-ion collisions. In this paper, I give special attention to strange and charm particles which probe the medium differently and thus provide new constraints for the study of its properties. The paper covers results on elliptic flow for pion, kaon, kzero, antiproton, phi, lambda, xi, omega, dplus, dzero and dstar measured at midrapidity by ALICE in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV. I present also the comparison with available models that predict the hydrodynamical evolution of the medium and the energy loss of light and heavy quarks as they travel through.

6 pages, 7 figures, ICHEP 2012 proceedings

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