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Top anti-top pairs at the LHC heavy ion collision: a new interesting probe of quark gluon plasma

We investigate top anti-top quark pair production in lead-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider with nucleon-nucleon center of mass energy of 5.5 TeV. Due to the very high temperature and energy density created in heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-02 Lusaka Bhattacharya , Kirtiman Ghosh , Katri Huitu

Through the Looking-Glass with ALICE into the Quark-Gluon Plasma: A New Test for Hadronic Interaction Models Used in Air Shower Simulations

Recently, the ALICE Collaboration reported an enhancement of the yield ratio of strange and multi-strange hadrons to charged pions as a function of multiplicity at mid-rapidity in proton-proton, proton-lead, lead-lead, and xenon-xenon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-08 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Carlos Garcia Canal , Sergio J. Sciutto , Jorge F. Soriano

Study of $\langle p_{\rm T} \rangle$ and its higher moments, and extraction of the speed of sound in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE

Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a state of hot and dense strongly interacting QCD matter called quark--gluon plasma (QGP). On an event-by-event basis, the volume of the QGP in ultracentral collisions is mostly constant, while…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-14 ALICE Collaboration

Quarkonium measurements in nucleus--nucleus collisions with ALICE

Quarkonia, i.e. bound states of $b\bar{b}$ and $c\bar{c}$ quarks, are powerful observables to study the properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions. The formation of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), which is predicted by lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Pascal Dillenseger

Angular correlation results from ALICE

In heavy-ion collisions, the quark-gluon plasma is expected to be produced, which is an almost perfect liquid that made up the Universe a few microseconds after the Big Bang. In these collisions, jets are also formed from hadronizing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-07 Monika Varga-Kofarago

Studying the QGP with Jets at the LHC and RHIC

We review the current status of jet measurements in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). We discuss how the current measurements provide information about the quark-gluon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-03-23 Leticia Cunqueiro , Anne M. Sickles

Charmonium suppression at RHIC: Signature of a strongly-interacting QGP, not a weakly interacting

Following a recent work on equation of state for strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma [J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 32, 993 (2006)], we revisited the equation of state by incorporating the non-perturbative effects in the deconfined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-08 Binoy Krishna Patra , Vineet Agotiya

$J/\psi$ production in PHENIX

Heavy quarkonia production is expected to be sensitive to the formation of a quark gluon plasma (QGP). The PHENIX experiment has measured $J/\psi$ production at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=$~200 GeV in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions, as well as in reference…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac

Photons from Ultra-Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

It is believed that a novel state of matter - Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) will be transiently produced if normal hadronic matter is subjected to sufficiently high temperature and/or density. We have investigated the possibility of QGP…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Sourav Sarkar

Phobos results on charged particle multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions at ultra-relativistic energies

Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles emitted in $Au+Au$, $Cu+Cu$, $d+Au$, and $p+p$ collisions over a wide energy range have been measured using the PHOBOS detector at RHIC. The centrality dependence of both the charged…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-03-22 B. Alver , B. B. Back , M. D. Baker , M. Ballintijn , D. S. Barton , R. R. Betts , A. A. Bickley , R. Bindel , A. Budzanowski , W. Busza , A. Carroll , Z. Chai , V. Chetluru , M. P. Decowski , E. Garcıa , T. Gburek , N. George , K. Gulbrandsen , S. Gushue , C. Halliwell , J. Hamblen , G. A. Heintzelman , C. Henderson , D. J. Hofman , R. S. Hollis , R. Holynski , B. Holzman , A. Iordanova , E. Johnson , J. L. Kane , J. Katzy , N. Khan , J. Kotula W. Kucewicz , P. Kulinich , C. M. Kuo , W. Li , W. T. Lin , C. Loizides , S. Manly , D. McLeod , J. Michalowski , A. C. Mignerey , R. Nouicer , A. Olszewski , R. Pak , I. C. Park , H. Pernegger , C. Reed , L. P. Remsberg , M. Reuter , C. Roland , G. Roland , L. Rosenberg , J. Sagerer , P. Sarin , P. Sawicki , I. Sedykh , W. Skulski , C. E. Smith , S. G. Steadman , P. Steinberg , G. S. F. Stephans , M. Stodulski , A. Sukhanov , M. B. Tonjes , A. Trzupek , C. Vale , G. J. van Nieuwenhuizen , S. S. Vaurynovich , R. Verdier , G. I. Veres , B. Wadsworth , P. Walters , E. Wenger , F. L. H. Wolfs , B. Wosiek , K. Wozniak , A. H. Wuosmaa , B. Wyslouch

Formation of Dense Partonic Matter in High Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions: Highlights of RHIC Results

I review some important results from RHIC experiments. They were obtained in a unique environment for studying QCD bulk matter at temperatures and densities that surpass the limits where hadrons can exist as individual entities, raising the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-01-08 Rachid Nouicer

The Landscape of Particle Production: Results from PHOBOS

Recent results from the PHOBOS experiment at RHIC are presented, both from Au+Au collisions from the 2001 run and p+p and d+Au collisions from 2003. The centrality dependence of the total charged particle multiplicity in p+p and d+Au show…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Steinberg , PHOBOS collaboration

Multiplicity Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

In the PHOBOS experiment, charged particles are measured in almost the full solid angle. This enables the study of fluctuations and correlations in the particle production over a very wide kinematic range. In this paper, we show results of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Krzysztof Wozniak

$\phi$- meson Production at RHIC energies using the PHENIX Detector

Light vector mesons are among the most informative probes to understand the strongly coupled Quark Gluon Plasma created at RHIC. The suppression of light mesons at high transverse momentum, compared to expectations from scaled $p+p$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Deepali Sharma

Systematic Study of Directed Flow at RHIC Energies

Directed flow, v1, of charged hardons has been measured in Au-Au collisions at RHIC for center-of-mass energies sqrt(sNN) = 19.6, 130, 62.4, and 200 GeV using the PHOBOS detector. The large acceptance of PHOBOS for charged particles allows…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Alice C. Mignerey

Observation of the electromagnetic field effect via charge-dependent directed flow in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

The deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions enables the exploration of the fundamental properties of matter under extreme conditions. Non-central collisions can produce strong magnetic fields on the…

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Heavy Flavor Physics in PHENIX

Heavy quarks are good probes of the hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions since they are mainly generated early in the collision and interact with the medium in all collision stages. In addition, heavy flavor…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Rachid Nouicer

New Results on Hard Probes in Heavy-Ion Collisions with ALICE

Hard probes - final state particles related to an interaction with large momentum transfer or mass scale - play a distinguished role in the discovery and the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), a phase of deconfined quarks and gluons…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-09-18 Christian Klein-Bösing

Charm Production at RHIC

Observations by the PHENIX and STAR collaborations suggest that a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma is produced in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). After a brief introduction to heavy-ion physics,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-06-15 A. G. Knospe

Two- and three-pion Levy femtoscopy with PHENIX

The last decades of high energy physics revealed, that in ultra-relativistic ion-ion collisions, a strongly interacting quark gluon plasma (sQGP) is created. Varying the collision energy allows for the investigation of the phase diagram of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-09-21 Mate Csanad