Latest results from ALICE

TL;DR

This paper presents selected results from the ALICE experiment at the LHC, exploring high-energy proton and lead-lead collisions to study the properties of hadronic and nuclear matter, including insights into the quark-gluon plasma.

Contribution

It reports new experimental findings from ALICE on matter behavior at extreme energies and densities, enhancing understanding of QGP properties.

Findings

Proton runs explored matter at very high energy and low pt.

Pb-Pb runs revealed dense medium behavior with thousands of particles.

Results provide insights into QGP chemical composition and dynamics.

Abstract

In this paper selected results obtained by the ALICE experiment at the LHC will be presented. Data collected during the pp runs taken at sqrt(s)=0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV and Pb-Pb runs at sqrt(s_NN)=2.76 TeV allowed interesting studies on the properties of the hadronic and nuclear matter: proton runs gave us the possibility to explore the ordinary matter at very high energy and up to very low pt, while Pb-Pb runs provided spectacular events where several thousands of particles produced in the interaction revealed how a very dense medium behaves, providing a deeper picture on the quark gluon plasma(QGP) chemical composition and dynamics.