Performance of the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

Alice Collaboration - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2014 - World Scientific
ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The experiment
continuously took data during the first physics campaign of the machine from fall 2009 until …

The Muon Puzzle in cosmic-ray induced air showers and its connection to the Large Hadron Collider

J Albrecht, L Cazon, H Dembinski, A Fedynitch… - Astrophysics and Space …, 2022 - Springer
High-energy cosmic rays are observed indirectly by detecting the extensive air showers
initiated in Earth's atmosphere. The interpretation of these observations relies on accurate …

Enhanced production of multi-strange hadrons in high-multiplicity proton–proton collisions

Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
At sufficiently high temperature and energy density, nuclear matter undergoes a transition to
a phase in which quarks and gluons are not confined: the quark–gluon plasma (QGP). Such …

A comprehensive guide to the physics and usage of PYTHIA 8.3

C Bierlich, S Chakraborty, N Desai… - SciPost Physics …, 2022 - scipost.org
This manual describes the Pythia event generator, the most recent version of an evolving
physics tool used to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. The program is most …

Precise measurement of the ratio of fragmentation fractions and of decay branching fractions

R Aaij, CA Beteta, T Ackernley, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The ratio of the B s 0 and B 0 fragmentation fractions, fs/fd, in proton-proton collisions at the
LHC, is obtained as a function of B-meson transverse momentum and collision center-of …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Multiplicity dependence of pion, kaon, proton and lambda production in p–Pb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamova, AM Adare… - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
In this Letter, comprehensive results on π±, K±, KS 0, p (p¯) and Λ (Λ¯) production at mid-
rapidity (0< y CMS< 0.5) in p–Pb collisions at s NN= 5.02 TeV, measured by the ALICE …

Rivet user manual

A Buckley, J Butterworth, D Grellscheid, H Hoeth… - Computer Physics …, 2013 - Elsevier
This is the manual and user guide for the Rivet system for the validation and tuning of Monte
Carlo event generators. As well as the core Rivet library, this manual describes the usage of …

KS 0 and Λ Production in Pb-Pb Collisions at s NN<? format?>=<? format?> 2.76 TeV

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamova, AM Adare… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
The ALICE measurement of KS 0 and Λ production at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s
NN= 2.76 TeV is presented. The transverse momentum (p T) spectra are shown for several …

Unveiling the strong interaction among hadrons at the LHC

Nature, 2020 - nature.com
One of the key challenges for nuclear physics today is to understand from first principles the
effective interaction between hadrons with different quark content. First successes have …