Open heavy flavour production in ALICE

Abstract

After a short review of the physics motivations for the study of open heavy flavour production in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC, we present results on the expected performance of the ALICE experiment for charm and beauty production measurements.

5 pages, 6 figures, prepared for the proceedings of "Hadron Collider Physics 2005"

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• Testing the Color Charge and Mass Dependence of Parton Energy Loss with Heavy-to-light Ratios at RHIC and LHC
• Charm production and in-medium QCD energy loss in nucleus-nucleus collisions with ALICE. A performance study