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 …

Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

K Zhou, L Wang, LG Pang, S Shi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel
problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly …

Probing the short-distance structure of the quark-gluon plasma with energy correlators

Z Yang, Y He, I Moult, XN Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Energy-energy correlators (EECs) are promising observables to study the dynamics of jet
evolution in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) through its imprint on angular scales in the …

Prompt D0, D+, and D*+ production in Pb–Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Journal of high energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract The production of prompt D 0, D+, and D*+ mesons was measured at midrapidity (|
y|< 0.5) in Pb–Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair\(\sqrt {s …

Jet substructure at the Large Hadron Collider: a review of recent advances in theory and machine learning

AJ Larkoski, I Moult, B Nachman - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Jet substructure has emerged to play a central role at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC),
where it has provided numerous innovative new ways to search for new physics and to …

Determining the jet transport coefficient from inclusive hadron suppression measurements using Bayesian parameter estimation

S Cao, Y Chen, J Coleman, J Mulligan, PM Jacobs… - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We report a new determination of q ̂, the jet transport coefficient of the quark-gluon plasma.
We use the JETSCAPE framework, which incorporates a novel multistage theoretical …

Inclusive jet and hadron suppression in a multistage approach

A Kumar, Y Tachibana, C Sirimanna, G Vujanovic… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
We present a new study of jet interactions in the quark-gluon plasma created in high-energy
heavy-ion collisions, using a multistage event generator within the jetscape framework. We …

Nuclear modification factor of D0 mesons in PbPb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Physics Letters B, 2018 - Elsevier
The transverse momentum (p T) spectrum of prompt D 0 mesons and their antiparticles has
been measured via the hadronic decay channels D 0→ K− π+ and D‾ 0→ K+ π− in pp and …

Extraction of heavy-flavor transport coefficients in QCD matter

R Rapp, PB Gossiaux, A Andronic, R Averbeck… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
We report on broadly based systematic investigations of the modeling components for open
heavy-flavor diffusion and energy loss in strongly interacting matter in their application to …