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The ALICE detector at the LHC (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) will carry out comprehensive measurements of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, in order to study QCD matter under extreme conditions and the phase transtion between…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Rene Bellwied

The ALICE detector has been commissioned and is ready for taking data at the Large Hadron Collider. The first proton-proton collisions are expected in 2009. This contribution describes the current status of the detector, the results of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-18 P. G. Kuijer

The study of heavy ion interactions constitutes an important part of the experimental program outlined for the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN and expected to be operational by 2006. ALICE is the single detector having the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Valenti

ALICE at the LHC is the experiment dedicated to study the physics of nucleus-nucleus collisions. The apparatus is well suited for the measurement of heavy-quark hadron production, making use of the high spatial resolution provided by the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 S. Masciocchi

ALICE is the experiment at the LHC collider at CERN dedicated to heavy ion physics. In this report, the ALICE detector will be presented, together with its expected performance as far as some selected physics topics are concerned.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Chiara Zampolli

The status of the ALICE experiment is presented. ALICE is the LHC experiment devoted to heavy ion collisions. Preparing for the first lead-lead run, foreseen in November 2010, ALICE is successfully collecting data in proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Pietro Antonioli

The study of relativistic heavy-ion collisions is an important part of the LHC research programme at CERN. This emerging field of research focuses on the study of matter under extreme conditions of temperature, density, and pressure. Here…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 G. Herrera Corral

Lead nuclei, accelerated at the LHC, are sources of strong electromagnetic fields that can be used to measure photon-induced interactions in a new kinematic regime. These interactions can be studied in ultra-peripheral p-Pb and Pb-Pb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 E. L. Kryshen

$\gamma +$jet events provide a tomographic measurement of the medium formed in heavy ion collisions at LHC energies. Tagging events with a well identified high $p_{T}$ direct photon and measuring the correlation distribution of hadrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-11 Yaxian Mao , Yves Schutz , Daicui Zhou , Christophe Furget , Gustavo Conesa Balbastre

This contribution discusses the measurements of direct photons in pp and Pb--Pb collisions from the LHC Run 2, as recorded by the ALICE experiment. Specifically, we focus on the isolated photons results obtained at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ =…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-12-18 Carolina Arata

Various pion and photon production mechanisms in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC are discussed. Comparison with RHIC data is done whenever possible. The prospect of using electromagnetic probes to characterize quark-gluon…

We review current results on physics with photons at the LHC and discuss realistic perspectives of photon physics at future colliders. In particular, we focus on Standard Model (SM) measurements with photons at the upcoming high-luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-25 M. Klasen

This article presents recent measurements by the ALICE Collaboration in proton--oxygen (pO), oxygen--oxygen (OO), and neon--neon (Ne--Ne) collisions delivered by the LHC in July 2025. Measurements of the primary charged-particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-04-09 Abhi Modak

The ALICE detector was designed to identify hadrons over a wide range of transverse momentum at mid-rapidity. Here measurements of light charged ({\pi}, K, p) and neutral ({\Lambda}, K0S) hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 L. S. Barnby

The ALICE experiment has been taking data since 2009, with proton and lead beams. In this paper, the different particle identification techniques used by the experiment are briefly reviewed. The current results on identified particle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 M. Floris

The ALICE experiment has measured the direct photon spectra in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76$ TeV for three different centrality selections. The measurement was performed emplying a method utilizing conversion of photons into…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Baldo Sahlmueller

The performance of the ALICE detector in searches for new heavy stable charged particles in pp collisions is discussed in this paper. Gluino R-hadron was chosen as an example of a candidate, and cross sections and kinematic properties were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexandru Dobrin

The ALICE experiment has unique capabilities for particle identification at mid rapidity over a wide range of transverse momenta, making it an ideal tool for comprehensive measurements of hadrons such as charged pions, kaons, and protons as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Tuva Richert

The photon spectra measured by the ALICE collaboration in Pb+Pb collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies has been analyzed with a view of extracting the properties of thermal system formed in these collisions. The results of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-05 Sukanya Mitra , Payal Mohanty , Sabyasachi Ghosh , Sourav Sarkar , Jan-e Alam

ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The experiment has also a broad program of QCD measurements in proton-proton (pp) collisions, which have two-fold interest: the study of particle production at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Dainese