D-meson reconstruction via cascade decays with the ALICE experiment

During this internship, two D-meson decay channels involving $\mathrm{K^{0}_{S}}$ were studied: $\mathrm{D^{+} \rightarrow K^{0}_{S}\pi^{+}}$ and $\mathrm{D^{+}_{s} \rightarrow K^{0}_{S}K^{+}}$. In this report, the implementation of both cascade decay reconstructions in the ALICE analysis framework of the Charm-to-Hadron (D2H) group is presented. The performances in terms of memory consumption, running time and output size were evaluated on p-Pb data. Finally, $\mathrm{D^{+}}$ cascade reconstructions were tested in pp Monte Carlo simulations.