Open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions measured by the ALICE detector at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses measurements of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at the LHC, providing insights into the properties of the quark-gluon plasma.

Contribution

It presents recent ALICE measurements of heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in different collision systems at various rapidities.

Findings

Modification of production rates observed in heavy-ion collisions

Results help characterize the hot and dense medium created in such collisions

Data compare Pb-Pb and p-Pb results to proton-proton baselines

Abstract

Open heavy-flavour and quarkonia measurements are important tools to study the hot and dense partonic medium formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The modification of their production in those collisions, with respect to the pp and p-Pb ones, can help in the characterization of this medium. Quarkonia and open heavy-flavour production is measured in ALICE in the three different collision systems, at mid- and forward rapidity. A selection of those results recently obtained in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions by the ALICE Collaboration is presented.