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 …

Charm-quark fragmentation fractions and production cross section at midrapidity in pp collisions at the LHC

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
Recent p T-integrated cross-section measurements of the ground-state charm mesons and
baryons, D 0, D+, D s+, Λ c+, and Ξ c 0, are used to evaluate the charm fragmentation …

Charm production and fragmentation fractions at midrapidity in pp collisions at = 13 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, G Aglieri Rinella… - Journal of high energy …, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Measurements of the production cross sections of prompt D 0, D+, D*+,\({\textrm
{D}} _ {\textrm {s}}^{+}\),\({\Lambda} _ {\textrm {c}}^{+}\), and\({\**} _ {\textrm {c}}^{+}\) charm …

Observation of a multiplicity dependence in the pT-differential charm baryon-to-meson ratios in proton–proton collisions at s= 13 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
The production of prompt D 0, D s+, and Λ c+ hadrons, and their ratios, D s+/D 0 and Λ c+/D
0, are measured in proton–proton collisions at s= 13 TeV at midrapidity (| y|< 0.5) with the …

Heavy-quark diffusion in the quark–gluon plasma

M He, H van Hees, R Rapp - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-
energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport …

Measurement of Prompt , , and Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
The p T-differential production cross sections of prompt D 0, Λ c+, and Σ c 0,++(2455)
charmed hadrons are measured at midrapidity (| y|< 0.5) in pp collisions at s= 13 TeV. This is …

Constraining hadronization mechanisms with Λc+/D0 production ratios in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physics Letters B, 2023 - Elsevier
The production of prompt Λ c+ baryons at midrapidity (| y|< 0.5) was measured in central (0–
10%) and mid-central (30–50%) Pb–Pb collisions at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon …

Measurement of the Cross Sections of Ξ c 0 and Ξ c+ Baryons and of the Branching-Fraction Ratio BR (Ξ c 0→ Ξ-e+ ν e)/BR (Ξ c 0→ Ξ-π+) in pp Collisions at s= 13 …

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
The p T-differential cross sections of prompt charm-strange baryons Ξ c 0 and Ξ c+ were
measured at midrapidity (| y|< 0.5) in proton-proton (pp) collisions at a center-of-mass …

First measurement of production down to in and -Pb collisions at TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, G Aglieri Rinella… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The production of prompt Λ c+ baryons has been measured at midrapidity in the transverse
momentum interval 0< p T< 1 GeV/c for the first time, in pp and p–Pb collisions at a center-of …