Heavy quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are sensitive probes of the medium produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. They are produced in the early stage of the collision, mainly in hard partonic scattering processes, and ...

Results on the production of stable light nuclei, including deuterons,3He,4He and the corresponding anti-nuclei, inPb–Pb collisions at√sNN=2.76 TeV and√sNN=5.02 TeV are presented and compared with theoretical predictionsand ...

ALICE is the experiment specifically designed to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The ALICE detector will be upgraded during the Long Shutdown 2, planned for 2019-2020, in order ...

One of the key results of the LHC Run 1 was the observation of an enhanced production of strange particles in high multiplicity pp and p–Pb collisions at √ sNN = 7 and 5.02 TeV, respectively. The strangeness enhancement ...

Quarkonia, i.e. bound states of bb¯ and cc¯ quarks, are powerful observables to study the properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions. The formation of a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), which is predicted by lattice ...

Measurements of open heavy flavour production in p–A collisions allow the investigation of Cold Nuclear Matter effects. In addition, they are an important tool for a complementary investigation of the long-range correlations ...