Beauty of the Quark Gluon Plasma Prospect for B0 measurement in ALICE

Abstract

We studied the feasibility of B0 meson measurement in ALICE to determine the properties of the Quark- Gluon Plasma, a form of matter in which quarks and gluons are deconfined. This plasma is expected to have existed in the early universe and in present-day neutron stars. We specifically studied the prospect of reconstructing the B0 with the full hadronic decay channel B0 to D* Pi to D0 Pi Pi to K Pi Pi Pi. We show that we can successfully reconstruct the B0 using this decay channel in Monte Carlo simulations and calculate expectations for the analysis in data.