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ALICE Papers

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2025-04-01
07:01
D$^0$-meson-tagged jet axes difference in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s }= 5.02$ TeV / ALICE Collaboration, CERN
Heavy-flavor quarks produced in proton–proton (pp) collisions provide a unique opportunity to investigate the evolution of quark-initiated parton showers from initial hard scatterings to final-state hadrons. By examining jets that contain heavy-flavor hadrons, this study explores the effects of both perturbative and non-perturbative QCD on jet formation and structure. [...]
CERN-EP-2025-083.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 20. Draft (restricted): PDF;

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2025-03-31
15:12
Revealing the microscopic mechanism of deuteron formation at the LHC / ALICE Collaboration, CERN /ALICE
The formation of light (anti)nuclei with mass number A of few units (e.g., d, $^3$He, and $^4$He) in high-energy hadronic collisions presents a longstanding mystery in nuclear physics [1, 2]. It is not clear how nuclei bound by a few MeV can emerge in environments characterized by temperatures above 100 MeV [3–5], about 100,000 times hotter than the center of the Sun [...]
CERN-EP-2025-081.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 18. Draft (restricted): PDF;

Detaljerad journal
2025-03-31
14:44
First observation of ultra-long-range azimuthal correlations in low multiplicity pp and p–Pb collisions at the LHC / ALICE Collaboration, CERN /ALICE
This study presents the first observation of ultra-long-range two-particle azimuthal correlations with pseudorapidity separation of $|\Delta \eta| > 5.0$ in proton–proton (pp) andf $|\Delta \eta| > 6.5$ in proton–lead (p–Pb) collisions at the LHC, down to and below the minimum-bias multiplicity. Two-particle correlation coefficients ($V_{2\Delta}$) are measured after removing non-flow (jets and resonance decays) contributions using the template-fit method across various multiplicity classes, providing novel insights into the origin of long-range correlations in small systems [...]
CERN-EP-2025-080.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 11. Draft (restricted): PDF;

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2025-03-27
13:35
Accessing the deuteron source with pion–deuteron femtoscopy in Pb–Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV / ALICE Collaboration, CERN
Femtoscopy of non-identical particle pairs has been instrumental for precision measurements of both two-particle sources and the final-state interactions in high-energy elementary and heavy-ion collisions. The majority of measurements assessing the source properties are based on identical particle pairs, providing direct access to the characteristics of the single-particle source. [...]
CERN-EP-2025-075.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 17. Draft (restricted): PDF;

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2025-03-26
16:33
Centrality dependence of charged-particle pseudorapidity density at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{\textit{s}_{\rm{NN}}} = 5.36$ TeV / ALICE Collaboration, CERN
The ALICE Collaboration reports its first LHC Run 3 measurements of charged-particle pseudorapidity density at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at a centre-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.36$ TeV. Particle multiplicity in high-energy collisions characterises the system geometry, constrains particle-production mechanisms, and is used to estimate initial energy density. [...]
CERN-EP-2025-073.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 15. Draft (restricted): PDF;

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2025-03-26
11:39
First measurement of D$^{*+}$ vector spin alignment in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV / Acharya, Shreyasi (INFN, Bari) ; Agarwal, Apar (Calcutta, VECC) ; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca (CERN) ; Aglietta, Luca (Turin U. ; INFN, Turin) ; Agnello, Michelangelo (Turin Polytechnic) ; Agrawal, Neelima (Bologna U. ; INFN, Bologna) ; Ahammed, Zubayer (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ahmad, Shakeel (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahn, Sang Un (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Ahuja, Ishaan (Kosice U.) et al.
The first measurement of prompt D$^{*+}$ meson spin alignment in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions with respect to the direction orthogonal to the reaction plane is presented. The spin alignment is quantified by measuring the element $\rho_{00}$ of the diagonal spin-density matrix for prompt D$^{*+}$ mesons with $4 < p_{\rm T} < 30$ GeV/$c$ in two rapidity intervals, $|y| < 0.3$ and $0.3 < |y| < 0.8$, in central (0– 10%) and midcentral (30–50%) Pb–Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02$ TeV. [...]
arXiv:2504.00714; CERN-EP-2025-072.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 24 p. Draft (restricted): PDF; Fulltext: PDF;

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2025-03-26
07:16
Multiplicity-dependent inclusive J/$\psi$ production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV / Acharya, Shreyasi (INFN, Bari) ; Agarwal, Apar (Calcutta, VECC) ; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca (CERN) ; Aglietta, Luca (Turin U. ; INFN, Turin) ; Agnello, Michelangelo (Turin Polytechnic) ; Agrawal, Neelima (Bologna U. ; INFN, Bologna) ; Ahammed, Zubayer (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ahmad, Shakeel (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahn, Sang Un (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Ahuja, Ishaan (Kosice U.) et al.
This paper presents a study of the inclusive forward J/$\psi$ yield as a function of forward charged-particle multiplicity in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV using data collected by the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. The results are presented in terms of relative J/ψ yields and relative charged-particle multiplicities with respect to these quantities obtained in inelastic collisions having at least one charged particle in the pseudorapidity range $|\eta| < 1$. [...]
arXiv:2504.00686; CERN-EP-2025-070.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 21 p. Draft (restricted): PDF; Fulltext: PDF;

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2025-03-19
20:54
Measurement of correlations among net-charge, net-proton, and net-kaon multiplicity distributions in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV / Acharya, Shreyasi (INFN, Bari) ; Agarwal, Apar (Calcutta, VECC) ; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca (CERN) ; Aglietta, Luca (Turin U. ; INFN, Turin) ; Agnello, Michelangelo (Turin Polytechnic) ; Agrawal, Neelima (Bologna U. ; INFN, Bologna) ; Ahammed, Zubayer (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ahmad, Shakeel (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahn, Sang Un (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Ahuja, Ishaan (Kosice U.) et al.
Correlations among conserved quantum numbers, such as the net-electric charge, the net-baryon, and the net-strangeness in heavy-ion collisions, are crucial for exploring the QCD phase diagram. In this letter, these correlations are investigated using net-proton number (as a proxy for the net-baryon), net-kaon number (for the net-strangeness), and net-charged particle number in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector. [...]
arXiv:2503.18743; CERN-EP-2025-066.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 26 p. Draft (restricted): PDF; Fulltext: PDF;

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2025-03-15
07:08
Evidence for J/$\psi$ suppression in incoherent photonuclear production / Acharya, Shreyasi (INFN, Bari) ; Agarwal, Apar (Calcutta, VECC) ; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca (CERN) ; Aglietta, Luca (Turin U. ; INFN, Turin) ; Agnello, Michelangelo (Turin Polytechnic) ; Agrawal, Neelima (Bologna U. ; INFN, Bologna) ; Ahammed, Zubayer (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ahmad, Shakeel (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahn, Sang Un (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Ahuja, Ishaan (Kosice U.) et al.
According to quantum chromodynamics, at sufficiently high energy, the structure of hadrons reveals a dynamic equilibrium between gluon splitting and gluon recombination—a phenomenon known as saturation. The process of diffractive photonuclear production of a J/$\psi$ vector meson provides a direct insight into the gluon composition of hadrons. [...]
arXiv:2503.18708; CERN-EP-2025-057.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 18 p. Draft (restricted): PDF; Fulltext: PDF;

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2025-02-24
20:22
Investigating the p-$\pi^{\pm}$ and p-p-$\pi^{\pm}$ dynamics with femtoscopy in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV / Acharya, Shreyasi (Clermont-Ferrand U.) ; Agarwal, Apar (Calcutta, VECC) ; Aglieri Rinella, Gianluca (CERN) ; Aglietta, Luca (Turin U. ; INFN, Turin) ; Agnello, Michelangelo (Turin Polytechnic) ; Agrawal, Neelima (Bologna U. ; INFN, Bologna) ; Ahammed, Zubayer (Calcutta, VECC) ; Ahmad, Shakeel (Aligarh Muslim U.) ; Ahn, Sang Un (KISTI, Daejeon) ; Ahuja, Ishaan (Kosice U.) et al. /ALICE
The interaction between pions and nucleons plays a crucial role in hadron physics. It represents a fundamental building block of the low-energy QCD dynamics and is subject to several resonance excitations [...]
arXiv:2502.20200; CERN-EP-2025-034.- Geneva : CERN, 2025 - 40 p. Draft (restricted): PDF; Fulltext: PDF;

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