NBI Heavy-ion Seminar: Recent experimental insights into the hot hadronic medium with the upgraded ALICE detector at CERN

Thursday 24 Apr 2025, 10:00 → 11:30 Europe/Copenhagen

NBB (NBI)

You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute)

Title: Recent experimental insights into the hot hadronic medium with the upgraded ALICE detector at CERN

Speaker: Dr. Igor Altsybeev (Technical University of Munich)

Abstract: During the LHC Run 3, following the upgrade of the ALICE detector and the transition to a continuous readout regime, the ALICE experiment recorded unprecedented statistics on proton-proton and lead ion collisions. Combined with the unique particle-identification capabilities and improved pointing resolution of the detector, the new data allows us to perform much more precise measurements, providing deeper insights into the properties of hadronic matter at extreme temperatures and pressure. In this talk, I will highlight some recent peculiar observations done by ALICE, including angular anisotropies in the flow of light nuclei and hadrons containing charm quarks, particle production in ultra-peripheral interactions of nuclei, production of helium nuclei in pp collisions, and discuss what we learn from these studies. Additional attention will be given to the specifics of reconstructing and analyzing data accumulated in continuous readout mode, which has proven to be a non-trivial task.

Time: April 24^th, 2025, at 10 AM

Location: NBB-H-3-076 (section meeting room)