Publications by authors named "G Viesti"

A short description of the muon tomography demonstrator at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro near Padua, Italy, is given and the principal achievements owing to the data collected at that experimental facility are presented. In particular, the feasibility studies for several applications based on the muon-tomographic technology, within national and European projects, are discussed. The experimental problems and the procedures used to improve the performance are underlined.

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The pseudorapidity density of charged particles, dN_{ch}/dη, at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions has been measured at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV. For the 5% most central collisions, we measure a value of 1943±54.

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We report on the first measurement of an excess in the yield of J/ψ at very low transverse momentum (p_{T}<0.3  GeV/c) in peripheral hadronic Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76  TeV, performed by ALICE at the CERN LHC.

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Article Synopsis
  • The production of K and mesons in p-Pb collisions was analyzed using the ALICE detector at a collision energy of 5.02 TeV, focusing on their decay into charged hadrons.
  • The study covers transverse momentum spectra and various measurements, such as integrated yields and particle ratios, comparing the results to collisions in pp and Pb-Pb systems at different energies.
  • Investigations into K mesons help explore hadronic phase characteristics and particle formation mechanisms based on event multiplicity, with a focus on re-scattering effects related to the collision system's size and duration of the hadronic phase.
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We report the first results of elliptic (v_{2}), triangular (v_{3}), and quadrangular (v_{4}) flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02  TeV with the ALICE detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The measurements are performed in the central pseudorapidity region |η|<0.

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