Overview of quarkonium production with ALICE at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews ALICE experiment's measurements of quarkonium production in various collision systems and energies at the LHC, comparing results with theoretical models to understand quarkonium behavior in high-energy nuclear collisions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of quarkonium measurements by ALICE at different rapidities and energies, highlighting experimental results and their comparison with theoretical predictions.

Findings

Quarkonium production varies with collision system and energy.

ALICE's measurements help constrain theoretical models.

Results indicate suppression patterns in heavy-ion collisions.

Abstract

ALICE is a general purpose experiment designed to investigate nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at CERN. The ALICE detector is optimized for the reconstruction of quarkonia through the dimuon decay channel at foward rapidity as well as the dielectron decay channel at midrapidity. In this contribution, quarkonium measurements performed by the ALICE collaboration at both midrapidity and forward rapidity for various energies and colliding systems (pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb), will be discussed and compared to theory.