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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Heavy-quark diffusion in the quark–gluon plasma

M He, H van Hees, R Rapp - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-
energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport …

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 …

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 …

Measurement of prompt Ds+-meson production and azimuthal anisotropy in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN= 5.02 TeV

S Acharya, D Adamová, A Adler, J Adolfsson… - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
The production yield and angular anisotropy of prompt D s+ mesons were measured as a
function of transverse momentum (p T) in Pb–Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy flavor at the large hadron collider in a strong coupling approach

M He, RJ Fries, R Rapp - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
Employing nonperturbative transport coefficients for heavy-flavor (HF) diffusion through
quark–gluon plasma (QGP), hadronization and hadronic matter, we compute D-and B …