At the end of 2010, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started operation with heavy-
ion beams, colliding lead nuclei at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon. These …

We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

A bstract The production of prompt D 0, D+, and D*+ mesons was measured at midrapidity (|
y|< 0.5) in Pb–Pb collisions at the centre-of-mass energy per nucleon–nucleon pair\(\sqrt {s …

ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The experiment
continuously took data during the first physics campaign of the machine from fall 2009 until …

This publication describes the methods used to measure the centrality of inelastic Pb-Pb
collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per colliding nucleon pair with ALICE. The …

We present 9 new tunes of the p⊥-ordered shower and underlying-event model in Pythia
6.4. These “Perugia” tunes update and supersede the older “S0” family. The data sets used …

The yields of the K*(892) 0 and ϕ (1020) resonances are measured in Pb-Pb collisions at s
NN= 2.76 TeV through their hadronic decays using the ALICE detector. The measurements …

A bstract The elliptic flow coefficient (v 2) of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at\(\sqrt
{s_ {\mathrm {NN}}}= 2.76\) TeV was measured with the ALICE detector at the Large Hadron …

The transverse momentum (p T) spectrum and nuclear modification factor (R AA) of
reconstructed jets in 0–10% and 10–30% central Pb–Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV were …

Abstract ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)
experiment devoted to investigating the strongly interacting matter created in nucleus …