Detecting high density matter in the LHC

• Grant number: 15/07847-4
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): January 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): November 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal researcher: Sandra dos Santos Padula
• Grantee: César Augusto Bernardes
• Home Institution: Núcleo de Computação Científica (NCC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/01907-0 - São Paulo Research and Analysis Center, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/26025-3 - Search for the strongest electromagnetic field in quark-gluon plasma via measurement of directed and elliptic flow for charm mesons in PbPb collisions, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The correlations of identical particles, historically known as Hanbury-Brown and Twiss (HBT) effect, have been widely studied in high energies collisions for decades. They constitute a well-established tool to probe the dimensions of the emitting systems formed in these collisions. This research project aims to investigate the correlations of particles produced in proton-proton (pp) and lead-lead (PbPb) collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the Central Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector. Measurements of such correlations were performed at CMS in pp collisions. The research plan aims at extending such analysis and participate in several research projects interconnected with this topic. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BERNARDES, CESAR; COLLABORATION, CMS. Search for extreme electromagnetic fields through measurements of charm mesons flow harmonics in PbPb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the CMS detector. Nuclear Physics A, v. 1005, n. SI, JAN 2021. (18/26025-3, 15/07847-4, 13/01907-0)