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 …

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 …

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 …

Centrality determination of Pb-Pb collisions at TeV with ALICE

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamová, 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 …

Measurement of prompt and nonprompt charmonium suppression in collisions at 5.02

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
The nuclear modification factors of J/ψ J/ψ and ψ (2S) ψ (2S) mesons are measured in PbPb
PbPb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of\smash b s_ _ NN= 5.02\, Te …

[CARTE][B] Gauge/string duality, hot QCD and heavy ion collisions

J Casalderrey-Solana, H Liu, D Mateos, K Rajagopal… - 2014 - library.oapen.org
Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the nascent
universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal …

[HTML][HTML] Direct photon production in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN= 2.76 TeV

J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal, GA Rinella… - Physics Letters B, 2016 - Elsevier
Direct photon production at mid-rapidity in Pb–Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV was studied
in the transverse momentum range 0.9< p T< 14 GeV/c. Photons were detected with the …

First results from Pb+ Pb collisions at the LHC

B Müller, J Schukraft, B Wysłouch - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
At the end of 2010, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started operation with heavy-
ion beams, colliding lead nuclei at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon. These …

Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract The elliptic flow coefficient (v 2) of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at\(\sqrt
{s_ {\mathrm {NN}}}= 2.76\) TeV was measured with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron …