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The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor technology application in high-energy physics. The upgraded version of the tracking system, called…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-05 Svetlana Kushpil

ALICE is the CERN LHC experiment optimised for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterisation of the quark-gluon plasma. To achieve the physics program for LHC Run 3, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-04 Domenico Colella

Jet tomography probes provide a means to explore the properties of highly compressed and excited nuclear matter created in heavy ion collisions. The capabilities of the ALICE experiment, with its electromagnetic calorimeter (EMCal) upgrade,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. L. Klay

Angular particle correlations are a powerful tool to study collective effects and in-medium jet modification as well as their interplay in the hot and dense medium produced in central heavy-ion collisions. We present measurements of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) Upgrade for the ALICE experiment at LHC is the first large-area ($\sim$10~m$^2$) silicon vertex detector based on the CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) technology, which combines sensitive volume and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-10 G. Contin

The upgraded Inner Tracking System (ITS2) of the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider is based on Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS). With a sensitive area of about 10 $m^2$ and 12.5 billion pixels, ITS2 represents the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-29 Nicolo' Valle

This paper presents studies of the performance of several jet-substructure techniques, which are used to identify hadronically decaying top quarks with high transverse momentum contained in large-radius jets. The efficiency of identifying…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-07-05 ATLAS Collaboration

A search for magnetic monopoles and high-electric-charge objects is presented using 34.4 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV $pp$ collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC during 2015 and 2016. The considered signature is based upon high…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-02-10 ATLAS Collaboration

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the only experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dedicated to the study of heavy ion collisions. The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main tracking detector covering the pseudo rapidity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Renault , B. S. Nielsen , J. Westergaard , J. J. Gaardhøje

The ATLAS Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) is the outermost of the three sub-systems of the ATLAS Inner Detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In addition to its tracking capabilities, the TRT provides particle identification…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Hines

Jet substructure observables have been used by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as instruments to search for new physics as well as to study perturbative and nonperturbative processes in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Some…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-05-25 Ezra Lesser

The ALICE experiment at the LHC is equipped with an electromagnetic calorimeter (EMCal) designed to enhance its capabilities for jet measurement. In addition, the EMCal enables triggering on high energy jets. Based on the previous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-17 O. Bourrion , R. Guernane , B. Boyer , J. L. Bouly , G. Marcotte

ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is the future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN devoted to the physics of Quantum Chromo-thermo-dynamics. Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (HIC) at LHC aim at the production of a plasma…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gines Martinez , ALICE collaboration

The ALICE Collaboration is developing a novel vertexing detector to extend the heavy-flavour physics programme of the experiment during Run 4 by improving the pointing resolution of the tracking, particularly at low transverse momentum. It…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-05 Domenico Colella

The ALICE detector is introduced and a double gap trigger is presented. The interest in studying double pomeron induced events both in proton-proton and in lead-lead reactions is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Schicker

One of the main goals in the study of hadronic interactions at LHC energies is the attempt to characterize the mechanisms involved in particle production in different regimes. The charged-particle multiplicity is one of the most interesting…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-04-08 Alek Hutson

Pseudorapidity distributions of charged particles produced in heavy ion collisions are a powerful tool to characterize the global properties of the created system. They have been measured in a wide range of energies at the GSI, AGS, SPS and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-12-04 F. Prino

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) is the key ALICE detector for the study of heavy flavour production at LHC. Heavy flavor can be studied via the identification of short-lived hadrons containing heavy quarks which have a mean proper decay…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Rossegger

Knowledge of the material in the ATLAS inner tracking detector is crucial in understanding the reconstruction of charged-particle tracks, the performance of algorithms that identify jets containing b-hadrons and is also essential to reduce…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-10 ATLAS Collaboration

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