Penetrating and puzzling: photons shed light on heavy-ion collisions
Résumé Les émissions de photons éclairent les collisions d’ions lourds La lumière émise dans des collisions à haute énergie de noyaux lourds révè...
CMS observes long-range correlations in pp collisions at 13 TeV
The CMS collaboration has published its first particle-correlation result from proton–proton (pp) collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The paper describes the observation of a phenomeno...
STAR tracker snares heavy flavours
Heavy quarks are important probes of the quark–gluon plasma that is produced when relativistic heavy ions collide. Because of a mass effect, it has been argued that heavy quarks lose less energy thr...
ALICE in Vienna: from antinuclei to quark–gluon plasma
The 2015 edition of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2015), which took place in Vienna in July (“Vienna hosts a high-energy particle waltz”), provid...
ALICE goes forward with the ridge in pPb collisions
One of the hottest debates at the LHC is the potential emergence of collective effects in proton–lead (pPb) collisions, prompted by the discovery of double ridge structures in angular correlatio...
The most precise picture of the proton
After 15 years of measurement and another eight years of scrutinizing and calculations, the H1 and ZEUS collaborations have published the most precise results to date about the innermost struct...
ALICE investigates ‘snowballs in hell’
Résumé L’omelette norvégienne d’ALICE Il n’y a pas uniquement des hadrons ordinaires dans les débris des ” boules de feu ” produites par les collision...
First full jet measurement in Pb–Pb collisions with ALICE
In high-energy collisions at the LHC, quarks and gluons occasionally scatter violently and produce correlated showers of particles, or “jets”. In proton–proton collisions, the rate o...
ALICE sheds light on particle production in heavy-ion collisions
New results from the ALICE collaboration are providing additional data to test ideas about how particles are produced out of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions at the L...
Profiling jets with ALICE
Scaled pT spectra of charged particles in jets for different bins of jet transverse momentum. “Jets are collimated sprays of particles.” This ubiquitous characterization used in man...
