Measurement of J/psi production in
Pb-Pb and pp
collisions at the LHC with the ALICE experiment, M. Gagliardi, Università
degli Studi and Sezione INFN Torino, Italy − ALICE (A Large
Ion Collider
Experiment) aims at studying the behaviour of nuclear matter at
high energy
densities and the transition to Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), expected
to occur in
relativistic heavy ion collisions.Quarkonia
are important probes of nuclear matter and QGP, through the
modification of
their yield in the hot and dense medium formed in heavy ion
collisions; their
measurement in pp collisions is also crucial to the ALICE physics
program.Quarkonium
measurement is possible in ALICE
at both forward (in the dimuon channel) and mid-rapidity (in the
dielectron
channel).In 2010 and
2011 the Large
Hadron Collider has provided pp collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV and
2.76 TeV and
Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2.76 TeV.The ALICE results on
J/psi in both Pb-Pb and
pp collisions will be presented.