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-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

CDF Collaboration†‡, T Aaltonen, S Amerio, D Amidei… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The mass of the W boson, a mediator of the weak force between elementary particles, is
tightly constrained by the symmetries of the standard model of particle physics. The Higgs …

New CTEQ global analysis of quantum chromodynamics with high-precision data from the LHC

TJ Hou, J Gao, TJ Hobbs, K **e, S Dulat, M Guzzi… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We present the new parton distribution functions (PDFs) from the CTEQ-TEA collaboration,
obtained using a wide variety of high-precision Large Hadron Collider (LHC) data, in …

Measurement of beauty and charm production in pp collisions at = 5.02 TeV via non-prompt and prompt D mesons

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Journal of high energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract The p T-differential production cross sections of prompt and non-prompt (produced
in beauty-hadron decays) D mesons were measured by the ALICE experiment at midrapidity …

Electron efficiency measurements with the ATLAS detector using 2012 LHC proton–proton collision data

Atlas Collaboration - 2017 - Springer
This paper describes the algorithms for the reconstruction and identification of electrons in
the central region of the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These …

New parton distribution functions from a global analysis of quantum chromodynamics

S Dulat, TJ Hou, J Gao, M Guzzi, J Huston, P Nadolsky… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We present new parton distribution functions (PDFs) at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO)
from the CTEQ-TEA global analysis of quantum chromodynamics. These differ from previous …

CT10 next-to-next-to-leading order global analysis of QCD

J Gao, M Guzzi, J Huston, HL Lai, Z Li, P Nadolsky… - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
We present next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) parton distribution functions (PDFs) from
the CTEQ-TEA group. The CT10NNLO PDF fit is based on essentially the same global data …

New parton distributions for collider physics

HL Lai, M Guzzi, J Huston, Z Li, PM Nadolsky… - Physical Review D …, 2010 - APS
We extract new parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton by global analysis of hard
scattering data in the general-mass framework of perturbative quantum chromodynamics …

Theoretical predictions for charm and bottom production at the LHC

M Cacciari, S Frixione, N Houdeau… - Journal of High Energy …, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We present predictions for a variety of single-inclusive observables that stem from
the production of charm and bottom quark pairs at the 7 TeV LHC. They are obtained within …