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Register a new userSuppression of neutral pion production at large transverse momentum measured with the ALICE experiment in Pb-Pb collisions at $sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV
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G. Conesa Balbastre
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The ALICE collaboration at the LHC has measured the transverse momentum spectra of neutral pions via their two photon decay in pp and Pb$-$Pb collisions at $sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV over a broad transverse momentum range with different subsystems: with the electromagnetic calorimeters PHOS and EMCAL and with photon
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