Abstract

Highlights of recent results from the ALICE collaboration are presented. The collision systems investigated are Pb–Pb, p–Pb, and pp, and results from studies of bulk particle production, azimuthal correlations, open and hidden heavy flavor, and hard probes are shown. The results provide key constraints on transport properties of the QCD matter, the initial conditions, the dynamics of heavy quarks in hot and dense systems, and the coupling of hard probes with the medium. A brief description of the ALICE upgrade program is also given.

Highlights

  • ALICE is the only dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and has an extensive set of sub-detectors which can probe a broad set of observables from heavy-ion and elementary collisions

  • The results presented are based on data sampled from LHC running period 1, and the ongoing running period 2

  • At higher pT, we observed that light flavor v2 for different species becomes similar at high pT

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Summary

Introduction

ALICE is the only dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and has an extensive set of sub-detectors which can probe a broad set of observables from heavy-ion and elementary collisions. The Forward Multiplicity Detector (FMD) detects charged particles in the ranges −3.5 < η < −1.7 and 1.7 < η < 5.0, while the Muon Spectrometer covers the range 2.5 < η < 4. At mid-rapidity, particle identification can be carried out using the TPC and ITS, as well as the Time of Flight (TOF) detector and the High Momentum. The Electro-Magnetic Calorimeter (EMCal) is primarily used to detect high momentum neutral particles at mid-rapidity. The extensive η range provided by the various subdetectors, we are able to determine that 21400 ± 1300 charged particles are produced over full phase space in such collisions [2, 3] Using [1]. the extensive η range provided by the various subdetectors, we are able to determine that 21400 ± 1300 charged particles are produced over full phase space in such collisions [2, 3]

Bulk Particle Production
Azimuthal Correlations
Open and Hidden Heavy Flavor
Hard Probes
Upgrades
Findings
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