A Calibration Technique for the ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter at the Large Hadron Collider

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Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the world's largest and highest energy, particle and heavy ion collider. The LHC explores the frontiers of particle physics using high energy proton + proton collisions and the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma through the collision of heavy nuclei. ALICE is one of the four LHC experiments, specialized for the study of heavy ion collisions. This study presents our work on a detector of ALICE, the Electromagnetic Calorimeter. We are analyzing the proton-proton collision data recorded at 2.76 TeV. The ALICE TPC is used to isolate the tracks of e$^{+ }$e$^{-}$ pairs that originate from the decay of J/$\Psi $ particle and that fall within the EMCal's acceptance. The TPC measures the momentum of these electron tracks, which is compared to the energy deposited by them in the EMCal. We therefore use the precise measurement of TPC momentum as the reference to calibrate the EMCal energy measurement. In this presentation we will show the steps taken to analyze the data, how we performed the matching of electron tracks from the J/$\Psi $ decay with the energy deposited in the EMCal and some preliminary results.

Authors

  • Karen Cossyleon

    Chicago State University

  • Chaan Thomas

    Chicago State University

  • Edmundo Garcia-Solis

    Chicago State University

  • Mateusz Ploskon

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Peter Jacobs

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LBNL