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 …

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 …

New CTEQ global analysis of quantum chromodynamics with high-precision data from the LHC

TJ Hou, J Gao, TJ Hobbs, K **e, S Dulat, M Guzzi… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present the new parton distribution functions (PDFs) from the CTEQ-TEA collaboration,
obtained using a wide variety of high-precision Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data, in …

Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC

CMS collaboration - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
We review key measurements performed by CMS in the context of its heavy ion physics
program, using event samples collected in 2010–2018 with several collision systems and …

[HTML][HTML] The present and future of QCD

P Achenbach, D Adhikari, A Afanasev, F Afzal… - Nuclear Physics A, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective
of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 …

Parton distribution functions, , and heavy-quark masses for LHC Run II

S Alekhin, J Blümlein, S Moch, R Plačakytė - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We determine a new set of parton distribution functions (ABMP16), the strong coupling
constant α s and the quark masses mc, mb and mt in a global fit to next-to-next-to-leading …

First measurement of large area jet transverse momentum spectra in heavy-ion collisions

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Jet production in lead-lead (PbPb) and proton-proton (pp) collisions at a nucleon-
nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV is studied with the CMS detector at the LHC …

Measurement of the nuclear modification factor for inclusive jets in Pb+ Pb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

M Aaboud, G Aad, B Abbott, B Abeloos… - Physics Letters B, 2019 - Elsevier
Measurements of the yield and nuclear modification factor, R AA, for inclusive jet production
are performed using 0.49 nb− 1 of Pb+ Pb data at s NN= 5.02 TeV and 25 pb− 1 of pp data …

Measurement of the Splitting Function in and Pb-Pb Collisions at

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Data from heavy ion collisions suggest that the evolution of a parton shower is modified by
interactions with the color charges in the dense partonic medium created in these collisions …

Jet measurements in heavy ion physics

M Connors, C Nattrass, R Reed, S Salur - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018 - APS
A hot, dense medium called a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy
ion collisions. Early in the collision, hard parton scatterings generate high momentum …