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 …

Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

K Zhou, L Wang, LG Pang, S Shi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel
problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly …

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 …

Shear-induced spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions

B Fu, SYF Liu, L Pang, H Song, Y Yin - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study the spin polarization generated by the hydrodynamic gradients. In addition to the
widely studied thermal vorticity effects, we identify an undiscovered contribution from the …

Overview of high-density QCD studies with the CMS experiment at the LHC

CMS collaboration - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
We review key measurements performed by CMS in the context of its heavy ion physics
program, using event samples collected in 2010–2018 with several collision systems and …

Transverse momentum spectra and nuclear modification factors of charged particles in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC

S Acharya, FT Acosta, D Adamová, J Adolfsson… - Journal of high energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We report the measured transverse momentum (p T) spectra of primary charged
particles from pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy\(\sqrt {s_ {\mathrm …

Event generators for high-energy physics experiments

JM Campbell, M Diefenthaler, TJ Hobbs… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We provide an overview of the status of Monte-Carlo event generators for high-energy
particle physics. Guided by the experimental needs and requirements, we highlight areas of …

Search for the QCD critical point with fluctuations of conserved quantities in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC: an overview

X Luo, N Xu - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2017 - Springer
Fluctuations of conserved quantities, such as baryon, electric charge, and strangeness
number, are sensitive observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions to probe the QCD …

The Muon Puzzle in cosmic-ray induced air showers and its connection to the Large Hadron Collider

J Albrecht, L Cazon, H Dembinski, A Fedynitch… - Astrophysics and Space …, 2022 - Springer
High-energy cosmic rays are observed indirectly by detecting the extensive air showers
initiated in Earth's atmosphere. The interpretation of these observations relies on accurate …

Small system collectivity in relativistic hadronic and nuclear collisions

JL Nagle, WA Zajc - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The bulk motion of nuclear matter at the ultrahigh temperatures created in heavy ion
collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large Hadron Collider is well …