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 …

[HTML][HTML] Centrality, rapidity and transverse momentum dependence of J/ψ suppression in Pb–Pb collisions at sNN= 2.76 TeV

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamova, MM Aggarwal… - Physics Letters B, 2014 - Elsevier
The inclusive J/ψ nuclear modification factor (R AA) in Pb–Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV
has been measured by ALICE as a function of centrality in the e+ e− decay channel at mid …

Suppression at Forward Rapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamova, AM Adare… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
The ALICE experiment has measured the inclusive J/ψ production in Pb-Pb collisions at s
NN= 2.76 TeV down to zero transverse momentum in the rapidity range 2.5< y< 4. A …

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 J/ψ polarization in pp collisions at

LHCb Collaboration yanxi. zhang@ cern. ch… - The European Physical …, 2013 - Springer
An angular analysis of the decay J/ψ→ μ+ μ− is performed to measure the polarization of
prompt J/ψ mesons produced in pp collisions at s=7~TeV. The dataset corresponds to an …

Upgrade of the ALICE experiment: letter of intent

B Abelev, Alice Collaboration - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) is well-established as the gauge theory of strong
interactions. However, several of its fundamental aspects are not well-understood at present …

Polarization at Hadron Colliders in Nonrelativistic QCD

KT Chao, YQ Ma, HS Shao, K Wang, YJ Zhang - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
With nonrelativistic QCD factorization, we present a full next-to-leading order computation of
the polarization observable for J/ψ production at hadron colliders including all important …

New observables in inclusive production of quarkonia

JP Lansberg - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
After an introduction motivating the study of quarkonium production, we review the recent
developments in the phenomenology of quarkonium production in inclusive scatterings of …

Production of J/ψ and mesons in pp collisions at TeV

R Aaij, CA Beteta, B Adeva, M Adinolfi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2013 - Springer
A bstract The production of J/ψ and\(\varUpsilon\) mesons in pp collisions at\(\sqrt {s}= 8\)
TeV is studied with the LHCb detector. The J/ψ and\(\varUpsilon\) mesons are reconstructed …