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The ALICE detector is dedicated to studying the properties of hot and dense matter created in heavy-ion collisions. Among the probes used to investigate these properties are high-momentum particles, which originate in hard-scatterings…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sona Pochybova

In high-energy hadronic collisions, hard parton scatterings with large momentum transfers are prerequisites for the formation of hard and rare probes. In heavy-ion collisions, these probes---final state particles related to the early…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Alena Gromada

ALICE is the LHC experiment devoted to the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). To probe this high energy density state of strongly interacting matter expected to be produced in heavy-ion collisions at high energies, measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sarah Porteboeuf-Houssais

A review is given on photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions in the ALICE experiment. The physics motivation for studying such reactions is outlined, and the results obtained in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions in Run 1 of the LHC…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-10-28 R. Schicker

In the perspective of comparisons between proton-proton and heavy-ion physics, understanding the production mechanisms (soft and hard) in pp that lead to strange particles is of importance. Measurements of charged multi-strange…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-04-16 Antonin Maire

The next great energy frontier in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions is quickly approaching with the completion of the Large Hadron Collider and the ATLAS experiment is poised to make important contributions in understanding QCD matter at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 N. Grau

Particle correlations and particle multiplicity distributions cannot be approached independently: a unified description of correlations and multiplicity distributions is always needed in order to understand the underlying dynamics in high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Giovannini , Roberto Ugoccioni

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring is designed to study the strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In this paper we investigate correlations of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-27 Eszter Frajna , Robert Vertesi

ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the LHC. Due to the unique particle identification capabilities of the central barrel detectors (|eta|<0.9), J/psi can be measured in the di-electron channel in the very demanding environment…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-09-28 Jens Wiechula

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) studies the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP): a deconfined state of matter obtained in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. One of the probes for QGP study are quarkonia and open heavy flavour, of which…

The LHC Run 5 and 6 data taking phases will bring unprecedented luminosity in high-energy proton-proton and in heavy-ion collisions. The ALICE Collaboration proposes a next-generation experiment, ALICE 3, specifically designed to operate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-19 Robert Vertesi

The ALICE Collaboration proposes a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Runs 5 and 6. The detector consists of a large pixel-based tracking system covering eight units of pseudorapidity, complemented by multiple systems for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-27 Nicola Nicassio

The ALICE HMPID (High Momentum Particle IDentification) detector has been designed to identify charged pions and kaons in the range 1 < p < 3 GeV/c and protons in the range 1.5 < p < 5 GeV/c. It consists of seven identical proximity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-18 Giacomo Volpe

Jet substructure measurements in heavy-ion collisions provide constraints on jet quenching and the medium response in the QGP. Though there has been remarkable progress in inclusive-charged-hadron jet substructure measurements,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-22 Sierra Cantway

Jet substructure, defined by observables constructed from the distribution of constituents within a jet, provides the versatility to tailor observables to specific regions of QCD radiation phase space. This flexibility provides exciting new…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-10-12 James Mulligan

Selection of recent (in March 2022) results from the heavy-ion experiment ALICE at the CERN LHC, chosen to address various stages of the nucleus-nucleus reaction.

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-08-11 Dariusz Miskowiec

In heavy-ion physics, measurements of short-lived hadronic resonances allow the properties of the hadronic phase of the collision to be studied. In addition, resonances can be used along with stable hadrons to study parton energy loss in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. G. Knospe

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is designed and optimized to study ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, in which a hot and dense, strongly-interacting medium is created. Vector bosons (W and Z) are produced in hard…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-04-14 Kgotlaesele Johnson Senosi

Heavy Quarks will be abundantly produced in Heavy Ion Collisions at LHC energies. Both, the production of open heavy flavoured mesons and quarkonia will probe the strongly interacting medium created in these reactions. In particular, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Gines Martinez , the ALICE collaboration

W bosons are produced in hard scattering processes of partons in collisions of hadrons and they do not interact strongly with the medium produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Therefore, in p-Pb collisions the measurement of W-boson…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-20 Edith Zinhle Buthelezi