Simulation studies of π, ƞ and Ѡ meson reconstruction performance in pp collisions at √ s = 14 TeV in forward calorimeter (FoCal), ALICE

Abstract

Simulation studies of π, ƞ and Ѡ meson reconstruction performance in pp collisions at √ s = 14 TeV in forward calorimeter (FoCal), ALICE. FoCal is a possible up-grade to the ALICE experiment, which could be installed during LS3(Long shutdown 3) for data-taking in 20262028 at the LHC. The first part of the thesis is about the motivation and overview of the results achieved in the later sections of the thesis, Later chapters focuses on basics about calorimeter and detector geometry of FoCal and its description mainly about FOCAL-E, and about the simulation framework through which we are doing the analysis. In the analysis part we mainly focus on the reconstruction performance for the above said neutral mesons by extracting the signal and finding reconstruction eciency, peak position and width for the three mesons to asses the reconstruction performance in FoCal, lastly we also see the ⌘ ⇡0 ratio for the FoCal coverage in pp systems.