φ meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV with ALICE at the LHC
Acharya, Shreyasi; Adam, Jaroslav; Adamová, Dagmar; Adolfsson, Jonatan; Aggarwal, Madan M.; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca; Agnello, Michelangelo; Agrawal, Nikita; Ahammed, Zubayer; Ahmad, Nazeer; Ahn, Sang Un; Alme, Johan; Altenkaemper, Lucas; Arsene, Ionut Christian; Bätzing, Paul Christoph; Djuvsland, Øystein; Dordic, Olja; Helstrup, Håvard; Hetland, Kristin Fanebust; Kileng, Bjarte; Langøy, Rune; Lardeux, Antoine Xavier; Lien, Jørgen; Lindal, Svein; Lønne, Per-Ivar; Mahmood, Sohail Musa; Milosevic, Jovan; Nesbø, Simon Voigt; Nystrand, Joakim; Rehman, Attiq ur; Richter, Matthias; Røed, Ketil; Røhrich, Dieter; Skaali, Toralf Bernhard; Tambave, Ganesh Jagannath; Tveter, Trine Spedstad; Ullaland, Kjetil; Velure, Arild; Wagner, Boris; Wikne, Jon Christopher; Zhang, Hui; Zhao, Chengxin; Zhou, Zhuo; Zhu, Hongsheng; Aiola, Salvatore; Akindinov, Alexander; Alam, Sk Noor; Alba, José Luis Bazo; Aleksandrov, Dimitry; Allesandro, B.; De Albuquerque, Danilo Silva; ALICE, Collaboration
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Abstract
Strangeness production is a key tool to understand the properties of the medium formed in heavy-ion collisions: an enhanced production of strange particles was early proposed as one of the signatures of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. The φ meson, due to its s ¯s valence quark content, provides insight into strangeness production. The ALICE experiment has measured φ meson production in the dimuon channel in the forward rapidity region 2.5 < y < 4 in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. The preliminary φ meson pT spectra for different centrality classes and the yield as a function of the collision centrality in the transverse momentum range 2 < pT < 7 GeV/c are presented. These results are also compared with the ones previously obtained in Pb–Pb collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV.