Conveners
Heavy Ions: Heavy Ions
- Abdelilah Moussa (Université Mohammed Premier)
Recent highlights and future plans with ALICE at the LHC
Marielle Chartier$^1$ for the ALICE Collaboration
$^1$University of Liverpool, Oliver Lodge Laboratory, United Kingdom
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one the four large experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), whose research programme aims at an understanding of the phase equilibria of hadronic matter...
The ALICE detector at the LHC is dedicated to the study of the properties of the hot and dense QCD matter (quark-gluon plasma) produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. The heavy flavor (charm and beauty) quarks, having large masses, are produced in hard-parton scatterings at the early stages of the collisions. Their measurements in pp collisions are an important...
Quarkonia are bound states of charm or beauty quarks with their anti-particle. They have long being considered as unique probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that is formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Heavy quarks are produced in the hard scattering processes occurring at the beginning of the collision, while the formation of the bound state is affected by the presence of the...
