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Recent results on heavy flavours and quarkonia from ALICE

Nuclear Experiment 2024-11-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Heavy-flavour hadrons, containing at least one charm or beauty quark, are excellent probes of the deconfined medium created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, known as quark-gluon plasma. Results in smaller collision systems, such as proton-proton and p-Pb collisions, besides representing an important baseline for interpreting heavy-ion measurements, are crucial to test perturbative QCD calculations and hadronisation mechanisms in the absence of hot medium effects, as well as to search for commonalities with heavy-ion systems. Recently, measurements in proton-proton and p-Pb collisions have revealed unforeseen features with respect to the expectations based on previous results from e+e{\rm e}^{+}{\rm e}^{-} and ep collisions, showing that fragmentation fractions of heavy quarks are not universal. In this contribution, an overview of the most recent ALICE heavy-flavour measurements, along with the comparison to available calculations, will be discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2411.11444,
  title  = {Recent results on heavy flavours and quarkonia from ALICE},
  author = {Fiorella Fionda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11444},
  year   = {2024}
}