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</p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=ATHENA+Collaboration"> ATHENA Collaboration</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Adam%2C+J">J. Adam</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Adamczyk%2C+L">L. Adamczyk</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Agrawal%2C+N">N. Agrawal</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aidala%2C+C">C. Aidala</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Akers%2C+W">W. Akers</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alekseev%2C+M">M. Alekseev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Allen%2C+M+M">M. M. Allen</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ameli%2C+F">F. Ameli</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Angerami%2C+A">A. Angerami</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antonioli%2C+P">P. Antonioli</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Apadula%2C+N+J">N. J. Apadula</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aprahamian%2C+A">A. Aprahamian</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Armstrong%2C+W">W. Armstrong</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arratia%2C+M">M. Arratia</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arrington%2C+J+R">J. R. Arrington</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Asaturyan%2C+A">A. Asaturyan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aschenauer%2C+E+C">E. C. Aschenauer</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Augsten%2C+K">K. Augsten</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aune%2C+S">S. Aune</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bailey%2C+K">K. Bailey</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Baldanza%2C+C">C. Baldanza</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bansal%2C+M">M. Bansal</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barbosa%2C+F">F. Barbosa</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barion%2C+L">L. Barion</a> , et al. (415 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2210.09048v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> ATHENA has been designed as a general purpose detector capable of delivering the full scientific scope of the Electron-Ion Collider. Careful technology choices provide fine tracking and momentum resolution, high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry, hadron identification over a wide kinematic range, and near-complete hermeticity. This article describes the detector design and its e… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2210.09048v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2210.09048v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2210.09048v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> ATHENA has been designed as a general purpose detector capable of delivering the full scientific scope of the Electron-Ion Collider. Careful technology choices provide fine tracking and momentum resolution, high performance electromagnetic and hadronic calorimetry, hadron identification over a wide kinematic range, and near-complete hermeticity. This article describes the detector design and its expected performance in the most relevant physics channels. It includes an evaluation of detector technology choices, the technical challenges to realizing the detector and the R&D required to meet those challenges. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2210.09048v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2210.09048v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 13 October, 2022; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> October 2022. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> JINST 17 (2022) 10, P10019 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05419">arXiv:2103.05419</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.05419">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/2103.05419">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Phenomenology">hep-ph</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Theory">nucl-th</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2022.122447">10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2022.122447 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Khalek%2C+R+A">R. Abdul Khalek</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Accardi%2C+A">A. Accardi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Adam%2C+J">J. Adam</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Adamiak%2C+D">D. Adamiak</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Akers%2C+W">W. Akers</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Albaladejo%2C+M">M. Albaladejo</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Al-bataineh%2C+A">A. Al-bataineh</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alexeev%2C+M+G">M. G. Alexeev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ameli%2C+F">F. Ameli</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antonioli%2C+P">P. Antonioli</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Armesto%2C+N">N. Armesto</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Armstrong%2C+W+R">W. R. Armstrong</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arratia%2C+M">M. Arratia</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arrington%2C+J">J. Arrington</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Asaturyan%2C+A">A. Asaturyan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Asai%2C+M">M. Asai</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aschenauer%2C+E+C">E. C. Aschenauer</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aune%2C+S">S. Aune</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Avagyan%2C+H">H. Avagyan</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Gayoso%2C+C+A">C. Ayerbe Gayoso</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Azmoun%2C+B">B. Azmoun</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bacchetta%2C+A">A. Bacchetta</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Baker%2C+M+D">M. D. Baker</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barbosa%2C+F">F. Barbosa</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barion%2C+L">L. Barion</a> , et al. (390 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2103.05419v3-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> This report describes the physics case, the resulting detector requirements, and the evolving detector concepts for the experimental program at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The EIC will be a powerful new high-luminosity facility in the United States with the capability to collide high-energy electron beams with high-energy proton and ion beams, providing access to those regions in the nucleon… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2103.05419v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('2103.05419v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="2103.05419v3-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> This report describes the physics case, the resulting detector requirements, and the evolving detector concepts for the experimental program at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The EIC will be a powerful new high-luminosity facility in the United States with the capability to collide high-energy electron beams with high-energy proton and ion beams, providing access to those regions in the nucleon and nuclei where their structure is dominated by gluons. Moreover, polarized beams in the EIC will give unprecedented access to the spatial and spin structure of the proton, neutron, and light ions. The studies leading to this document were commissioned and organized by the EIC User Group with the objective of advancing the state and detail of the physics program and developing detector concepts that meet the emerging requirements in preparation for the realization of the EIC. The effort aims to provide the basis for further development of concepts for experimental equipment best suited for the science needs, including the importance of two complementary detectors and interaction regions. This report consists of three volumes. Volume I is an executive summary of our findings and developed concepts. In Volume II we describe studies of a wide range of physics measurements and the emerging requirements on detector acceptance and performance. Volume III discusses general-purpose detector concepts and the underlying technologies to meet the physics requirements. These considerations will form the basis for a world-class experimental program that aims to increase our understanding of the fundamental structure of all visible matter <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('2103.05419v3-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('2103.05419v3-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 26 October, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 8 March, 2021; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> March 2021. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">902 pages, 415 authors, 151 institutions</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Report number:</span> BNL-220990-2021-FORE, JLAB-PHY-21-3198, LA-UR-21-20953 </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> Nucl. Phys. A 1026 (2022) 122447 </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02460">arXiv:1906.02460</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02460">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1906.02460">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019013006">10.3390/proceedings2019013006 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> ALICE Highlights </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Noferini%2C+F">Francesco Noferini</a> </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1906.02460v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> Deconfined strongly interacting QCD matter is produced in the laboratory at the highest energy densities in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. A selection of recent results from ALICE is presented, spanning observables from the soft sector (bulk particle production and correlations), the hard probes (charmed hadrons and jets) and signatures of possible collective effects in pp and p-Pb collisions wi… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1906.02460v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1906.02460v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1906.02460v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> Deconfined strongly interacting QCD matter is produced in the laboratory at the highest energy densities in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. A selection of recent results from ALICE is presented, spanning observables from the soft sector (bulk particle production and correlations), the hard probes (charmed hadrons and jets) and signatures of possible collective effects in pp and p-Pb collisions with high multiplicity. Finally, the perspectives after the detectors upgrades, taking place in the period 2019-2020, are presented. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1906.02460v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1906.02460v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 June, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> June 2019. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">14 pages, 16 figures, proceedings of 7th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2018)</span> </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Journal ref:</span> "ALICE Highlights", Proceedings 13, no. 1: 6 (2019) </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01211">arXiv:1902.01211</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.01211">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1902.01211">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Instrumentation and Detectors">physics.ins-det</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Theory">nucl-th</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> A next-generation LHC heavy-ion experiment </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Adamov%C3%A1%2C+D">D. Adamov谩</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Rinella%2C+G+A">G. Aglieri Rinella</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Agnello%2C+M">M. Agnello</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Ahammed%2C+Z">Z. Ahammed</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Aleksandrov%2C+D">D. Aleksandrov</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alici%2C+A">A. Alici</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alkin%2C+A">A. Alkin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alt%2C+T">T. Alt</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Altsybeev%2C+I">I. Altsybeev</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Andreou%2C+D">D. Andreou</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Andronic%2C+A">A. Andronic</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antinori%2C+F">F. Antinori</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antonioli%2C+P">P. Antonioli</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Appelsh%C3%A4user%2C+H">H. Appelsh盲user</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnaldi%2C+R">R. Arnaldi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arsene%2C+I+C">I. C. Arsene</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arslandok%2C+M">M. Arslandok</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Averbeck%2C+R">R. Averbeck</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Azmi%2C+M+D">M. D. Azmi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bai%2C+X">X. Bai</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bailhache%2C+R">R. Bailhache</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bala%2C+R">R. Bala</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barioglio%2C+L">L. Barioglio</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barnaf%C3%B6ldi%2C+G+G">G. G. Barnaf枚ldi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Barnby%2C+L+S">L. S. Barnby</a> , et al. (374 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1902.01211v2-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> The present document discusses plans for a compact, next-generation multi-purpose detector at the LHC as a follow-up to the present ALICE experiment. The aim is to build a nearly massless barrel detector consisting of truly cylindrical layers based on curved wafer-scale ultra-thin silicon sensors with MAPS technology, featuring an unprecedented low material budget of 0.05% X$_0$ per layer, with th… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1902.01211v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1902.01211v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1902.01211v2-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> The present document discusses plans for a compact, next-generation multi-purpose detector at the LHC as a follow-up to the present ALICE experiment. The aim is to build a nearly massless barrel detector consisting of truly cylindrical layers based on curved wafer-scale ultra-thin silicon sensors with MAPS technology, featuring an unprecedented low material budget of 0.05% X$_0$ per layer, with the innermost layers possibly positioned inside the beam pipe. In addition to superior tracking and vertexing capabilities over a wide momentum range down to a few tens of MeV/$c$, the detector will provide particle identification via time-of-flight determination with about 20~ps resolution. In addition, electron and photon identification will be performed in a separate shower detector. The proposed detector is conceived for studies of pp, pA and AA collisions at luminosities a factor of 20 to 50 times higher than possible with the upgraded ALICE detector, enabling a rich physics program ranging from measurements with electromagnetic probes at ultra-low transverse momenta to precision physics in the charm and beauty sector. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1902.01211v2-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1902.01211v2-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 2 May, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">v1</span> submitted 31 January, 2019; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2019. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">Input to the 2020 Update of the European Particle Physics Strategy</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04120">arXiv:1602.04120</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04120">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1602.04120">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Theory">nucl-th</span> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> INFN What Next: Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Dainese%2C+A">A. Dainese</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Scomparin%2C+E">E. Scomparin</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Usai%2C+G">G. Usai</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antonioli%2C+P">P. Antonioli</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arnaldi%2C+R">R. Arnaldi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Beraudo%2C+A">A. Beraudo</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bruna%2C+E">E. Bruna</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bruno%2C+G+E">G. E. Bruno</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Bufalino%2C+S">S. Bufalino</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Di+Nezza%2C+P">P. Di Nezza</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Lombardo%2C+M+P">M. P. Lombardo</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Nania%2C+R">R. Nania</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Noferini%2C+F">F. Noferini</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Oppedisano%2C+C">C. Oppedisano</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Piano%2C+S">S. Piano</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Prino%2C+F">F. Prino</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Rossi%2C+A">A. Rossi</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Agnello%2C+M">M. Agnello</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alberico%2C+W+M">W. M. Alberico</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alessandro%2C+B">B. Alessandro</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Alici%2C+A">A. Alici</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Andronico%2C+G">G. Andronico</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Antinori%2C+F">F. Antinori</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Arcelli%2C+S">S. Arcelli</a>, <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Badala%2C+A">A. Badala</a> , et al. (116 additional authors not shown) </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1602.04120v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> This document was prepared by the community that is active in Italy, within INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), in the field of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The experimental study of the phase diagram of strongly-interacting matter and of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) deconfined state will proceed, in the next 10-15 years, along two directions: the high-energy regime at RHIC a… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1602.04120v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1602.04120v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1602.04120v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> This document was prepared by the community that is active in Italy, within INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), in the field of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The experimental study of the phase diagram of strongly-interacting matter and of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) deconfined state will proceed, in the next 10-15 years, along two directions: the high-energy regime at RHIC and at the LHC, and the low-energy regime at FAIR, NICA, SPS and RHIC. The Italian community is strongly involved in the present and future programme of the ALICE experiment, the upgrade of which will open, in the 2020s, a new phase of high-precision characterisation of the QGP properties at the LHC. As a complement of this main activity, there is a growing interest in a possible future experiment at the SPS, which would target the search for the onset of deconfinement using dimuon measurements. On a longer timescale, the community looks with interest at the ongoing studies and discussions on a possible fixed-target programme using the LHC ion beams and on the Future Circular Collider. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1602.04120v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1602.04120v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 12 February, 2016; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> February 2016. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">99 pages, 56 figures</span> </p> </li> <li class="arxiv-result"> <div class="is-marginless"> <p class="list-title is-inline-block"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1292">arXiv:1212.1292</a> <span> [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.1292">pdf</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/ps/1212.1292">ps</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/format/1212.1292">other</a>] </span> </p> <div class="tags is-inline-block"> <span class="tag is-small is-link tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="Nuclear Experiment">nucl-ex</span> <span class="tag is-small is-grey tooltip is-tooltip-top" data-tooltip="High Energy Physics - Experiment">hep-ex</span> </div> <div class="is-inline-block" style="margin-left: 0.5rem"> <div class="tags has-addons"> <span class="tag is-dark is-size-7">doi</span> <span class="tag is-light is-size-7"><a class="" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.02.058">10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2013.02.058 <i class="fa fa-external-link" aria-hidden="true"></i></a></span> </div> </div> </div> <p class="title is-5 mathjax"> Anisotropic flow of identified particles in Pb-Pb collisions at \sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV measured with ALICE at the LHC </p> <p class="authors"> <span class="search-hit">Authors:</span> <a href="/search/nucl-ex?searchtype=author&query=Noferini%2C+F">Francesco Noferini</a> </p> <p class="abstract mathjax"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Abstract</span>: <span class="abstract-short has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1212.1292v1-abstract-short" style="display: inline;"> We report on the elliptic and triangular flow measurements for a number of hadrons including charged pions, and (anti-)protons, as well as those with strangeness content: kaons, ${\rm 蠁}$-meson, ${\rm K^0_s}$, ${\rm 螞/\bar螞}$, ${\rm 螢}$, and ${\rm 惟}$. The results reported cover mid--rapidity, $|畏|<0.8$, and a wide, $0.2 < p_{\rm T} < 16$ GeV/$c$, transverse momentum range for Pb-Pb collisions at… <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1212.1292v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'inline'; document.getElementById('1212.1292v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'none';">▽ More</a> </span> <span class="abstract-full has-text-grey-dark mathjax" id="1212.1292v1-abstract-full" style="display: none;"> We report on the elliptic and triangular flow measurements for a number of hadrons including charged pions, and (anti-)protons, as well as those with strangeness content: kaons, ${\rm 蠁}$-meson, ${\rm K^0_s}$, ${\rm 螞/\bar螞}$, ${\rm 螢}$, and ${\rm 惟}$. The results reported cover mid--rapidity, $|畏|<0.8$, and a wide, $0.2 < p_{\rm T} < 16$ GeV/$c$, transverse momentum range for Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV recorded by ALICE at the LHC. The mass splitting and the scaling properties of the elliptic flow with the number of constituent quarks and the particle transverse mass are studied as a function of collision centrality. The results are ompared to RHIC measurements and to hydrodynamic model predictions. <a class="is-size-7" style="white-space: nowrap;" onclick="document.getElementById('1212.1292v1-abstract-full').style.display = 'none'; document.getElementById('1212.1292v1-abstract-short').style.display = 'inline';">△ Less</a> </span> </p> <p class="is-size-7"><span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Submitted</span> 6 December, 2012; <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">originally announced</span> December 2012. </p> <p class="comments is-size-7"> <span class="has-text-black-bis has-text-weight-semibold">Comments:</span> <span class="has-text-grey-dark mathjax">4 pages, 6 figures, Qaurk Matter 2012 cnference proceedings to be pubblished in Nuclear Physics A</span> </p> </li> </ol> <div class="is-hidden-tablet">  <span class="help" style="display: inline-block;"><a href="https://github.com/arXiv/arxiv-search/releases">Search v0.5.6 released 2020-02-24</a>  </span> 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