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High-energy heavy ion collisions in the ALICE experiment at LHC-CERN: an overview

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The ALICE experiment at CERN has been taking data with pp, pPb, XeXe, and PbPb collisions at various collision energies at the Large Hadron Collider. ALICE, equipped with detectors for hadrons, photons and (di)leptons, is a dedicated setup to study the formation and characterization of the de-confined state of quarks and gluons created in high-energy heavy ion collisions. During the last decade of data taking, ALICE has confirmed the creation of a partonic medium in heavy ion collisions through measurements of conventional and rare probes. In addition, in high-multiplicity pp and pPb collisions, ALICE also observed a few features that are similar to those found in PbPb collisions. We have discussed some of those results in collisions of both small and large systems that reveal the properties of the media created in pp, pPb, and PbPb collisions.

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Chattopadhyay, S. High-energy heavy ion collisions in the ALICE experiment at LHC-CERN: an overview. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 232, 2831–2840 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-01007-z

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