Prospects for heavy flavour measurements with the ALICE inner tracker upgrade

초록

ALICE is the general purpose heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC. Its goal is to investigate the properties of the strongly interacting matter under the extreme conditions of density and temperature reached in Pb-Pb collisions, with the aim to characterize the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). In this scenario, the upgrade of the ALICE inner tracker targets physics topics in which ALICE can bring a unique contribution to the QGP characterization via the heavy flavour probes. We present an overview of the inner tracker upgrade and the expected physics performance for heavy flavour measurements.