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Overview of Hadron and Jet Production Results from ALICE

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The ALICE experiment is designed to study the hot and dense medium, the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. Measuring the spectrum of hadrons produced in high-\({{Q}^{2}}\) scattering processes in these collisions provides the possibility to explore one of the most spectacular effects – parton energy loss in QGP. By studying several observables with high-energy light-flavour, heavy-flavour hadrons, and jets in pp, p–Pb and Pb–Pb collision systems, the properties of hot QCD matter can be explored in detail. In these proceedings we present an overview of recent ALICE results on high-\({{p}_{{\text{T}}}}\) hadron and jet production in pp, p–Pb and Pb–Pb collisions at LHC energies.

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Peresunko, D. Overview of Hadron and Jet Production Results from ALICE. Phys. Part. Nuclei 53, 316–325 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779622020666

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