Performance of the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

Alice Collaboration - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 2014 - World Scientific
ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The experiment
continuously took data during the first physics campaign of the machine from fall 2009 until …

Heavy quarkonium: progress, puzzles, and opportunities

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, BK Heltsley, R Vogt… - The European Physical …, 2011 - Springer
A golden age for heavy-quarkonium physics dawned a decade ago, initiated by the
confluence of exciting advances in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and an explosion of …

The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC

K Aamodt, AA Quintana, R Achenbach… - Journal of …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the
CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model. It is …

Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV

B Abelev, J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract The elliptic flow coefficient (v 2) of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at\(\sqrt
{s_ {\mathrm {NN}}}= 2.76\) TeV was measured with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron …

Alignment of the ALICE Inner Tracking System with cosmic-ray tracks

ALICE collaboration - Journal of Instrumentation, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
experiment devoted to investigating the strongly interacting matter created in nucleus …

Measurement of pion, kaon and proton production in proton–proton collisions at TeV

J Adam, D Adamová, MM Aggarwal, GA Rinella… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
The measurement of primary π^ ± π±, K^ ± K±, pp and pp¯ production at mid-rapidity (| y|<|
y|< 0.5) in proton–proton collisions at ss== 7 TeV performed with a large ion collider …

Anisotropic flow of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at TeV

S Acharya, FT Acosta, D Adamová, J Adolfsson… - Journal of high energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract The elliptic (v 2), triangular (v 3), and quadrangular (v 4) flow coefficients of π±,
K±,\(\mathrm {p}+\overline {\mathrm {p}},\kern0. 5em\Lambda+\overline {\Lambda},\kern0 …

The physics of ultraperipheral collisions at the LHC

AJ Baltz, G Baur, D d'Enterria, L Frankfurt, F Gelis… - Physics Reports, 2008 - Elsevier
We discuss the physics of large impact parameter interactions at the LHC: ultraperipheral
collisions (UPCs). The dominant processes in UPCs are photon–nucleon (nucleus) …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Two-pion Bose–Einstein correlations in central Pb–Pb collisions at sNN= 2.76 TeV

K Aamodt, AA Quintana, D Adamová, AM Adare… - Physics Letters B, 2011 - Elsevier
The first measurement of two-pion Bose–Einstein correlations in central Pb–Pb collisions at
sNN= 2.76 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider is presented. We observe a growing trend with …