title: Charmed Meson Reconstruction in the D*+ -> D0 (K- pi+) pi+ Decay Channel in p-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ALICE Experiment
creator: Wang, Yifei
subject: 530
subject: 530 Physics
description: Within this thesis, the prompt production of the D*+(2010) meson and its anti-particle has been measured in the D*+ ->D0 (K- pi+) pi+ decay channel at mid-rapidity from p-p collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ALICE apparatus.  The production differential cross section is presented in ten intervals in the transverse momentum range 1 < pT < 24 GeV/c. The measured differential cross section of prompt D*+(2010) meson production is described by state-of-the-art perturbative QCD calculations within the framework of FONLL and GM-FVNS within rather large uncertainties in both experiment and calculations. Hadronization of charm into light flavor (d) D mesons allows for a description within the statistical model. The total charm production cross section was extracted by additionally taking into account the ALICE measurements on the prompt production of D0 and D+ mesons. Fair agreement with results from other LHC experiments ATLAS and LHCb is found.
date: 2013
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16265/1/YWang_2014.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00016265
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-162653
identifier:   Wang, Yifei  (2013) Charmed Meson Reconstruction in the D*+ -> D0 (K- pi+) pi+ Decay Channel in p-p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ALICE Experiment.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/16265/
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language: eng