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 …

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, BK Heltsley, R Vogt… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
A golden age for heavy-quarkonium physics dawned a decade ago, initiated by the
confluence of exciting advances in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and an explosion of …

The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

ALICE collaboration - European Physical Journal C, 2024 - jyx.jyu.fi
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 …

The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

K Aamodt, AA Quintana, R Achenbach… - Journal of …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the
CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model. It is …

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 …

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 …

Alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System with cosmic-ray tracks

ALICE collaboration - Journal of Instrumentation, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
experiment devoted to investigating the strongly interacting matter created in nucleus …

Centrality dependence of particle production in collisions at

J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal, G Aglieri Rinella… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We report measurements of the primary charged-particle pseudorapidity density and
transverse momentum distributions in p-Pb collisions at s NN= 5.02 TeV and investigate …

The physics of ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC

AJ Baltz, G Baur, D d'Enterria, L Frankfurt, F Gelis… - Physics Reports, 2008 - Elsevier
We discuss the physics of large impact parameter interactions at the LHC: ultraperipheral
collisions (UPCs). The dominant processes in UPCs are photon–nucleon (nucleus) …

QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …