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 …

Decoding the phase structure of QCD via particle production at high energy

A Andronic, P Braun-Munzinger, K Redlich, J Stachel - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Recent studies based on lattice Monte Carlo simulations of quantum chromodynamics
(QCD)—the theory of strong interactions—have demonstrated that at high temperature there …

[HTML][HTML] The forward physics facility at the high-luminosity LHC

JL Feng, F Kling, MH Reno, J Rojo… - Journal of Physics G …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large
number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing LHC …

Robust independent validation of experiment and theory: Rivet version 3

C Bierlich, A Buckley, JM Butterworth, CH Christensen… - SciPost physics, 2020‏ - scipost.org
First released in 2010, the Rivet library forms an important repository for analysis code,
facilitating comparisons between measurements of the final state in particle collisions and …

Theoretical and experimental constraints for the equation of state of dense and hot matter

R Kumar, V Dexheimer, J Jahan, J Noronha… - Living Reviews in …, 2024‏ - Springer
This review aims at providing an extensive discussion of modern constraints relevant for
dense and hot strongly interacting matter. It includes theoretical first-principle results from …

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 …

Charged-particle nuclear modification factors in PbPb and pPb collisions at TeV

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017‏ - Springer
A bstract The spectra of charged particles produced within the pseudorapidity window| η|< 1
at\(\sqrt {s_ {\mathrm {N}\;\mathrm {N}}}= 5.02\) TeV are measured using 404 μb− 1 of PbPb …

[HTML][HTML] Multiplicity dependence of (multi-)strange hadron production in proton-proton collisions at  = 13 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, SP Adhya, A Adler… - The European Physical …, 2020‏ - Springer
The production rates and the transverse momentum distribution of strange hadrons at mid-
rapidity (\(\left| y\right|< 0.5\)) are measured in proton-proton collisions at\(\sqrt {s}\)= 13 TeV …

Properties of hot and dense matter from relativistic heavy ion collisions

P Braun-Munzinger, V Koch, T Schäfer, J Stachel - Physics Reports, 2016‏ - Elsevier
We review the progress achieved in extracting the properties of hot and dense matter from
relativistic heavy ion collisions at the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven …

Jet measurements in heavy ion physics

M Connors, C Nattrass, R Reed, S Salur - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2018‏ - APS
A hot, dense medium called a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is created in ultrarelativistic heavy
ion collisions. Early in the collision, hard parton scatterings generate high momentum …