Decoding the phase structure of QCD via particle production at high energy

A Andronic, P Braun-Munzinger, K Redlich, J Stachel - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Recent studies based on lattice Monte Carlo simulations of quantum chromodynamics
(QCD)—the theory of strong interactions—have demonstrated that at high temperature there …

The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE Collaboration alice-publications@ cern … - The European Physical …, 2024 - Springer
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of …

The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE collaboration - European Physical Journal C, 2024 - jyx.jyu.fi
The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme
energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of …

Multisystem Bayesian constraints on the transport coefficients of QCD matter

D Everett, W Ke, JF Paquet, G Vujanovic, SA Bass… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We study the properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma with a multistage model
of heavy-ion collisions that combines the TR ENTo initial condition ansatz, free-streaming …

Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

Bayesian estimation of the specific shear and bulk viscosity of quark–gluon plasma

JE Bernhard, JS Moreland, SA Bass - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy atomic nuclei produce an extremely hot and dense phase
of matter, known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP), which behaves like a near-perfect fluid with …

Robust independent validation of experiment and theory: Rivet version 3

C Bierlich, A Buckley, JM Butterworth, CH Christensen… - SciPost physics, 2020 - scipost.org
First released in 2010, the Rivet library forms an important repository for analysis code,
facilitating comparisons between measurements of the final state in particle collisions and …

Heavy quarks and jets as probes of the QGP

L Apolinário, YJ Lee, M Winn - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP), a QCD state of matter created in ultra-relativistic
heavy-ion collisions, has remarkable properties including, for example, a low shear viscosity …

Centrality dependence of , , and production in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamova, AM Adare… - Physical Review C …, 2013 - APS
In this paper measurements are presented of π±, K±, p, and p¯ production at midrapidity (|
y|< 0.5), in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV as a function of centrality. The measurement …

Centrality determination of Pb-Pb collisions at TeV with ALICE

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamova, AM Adare… - Physical Review C …, 2013 - APS
This publication describes the methods used to measure the centrality of inelastic Pb-Pb
collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per colliding nucleon pair with ALICE. The …