Johanna Stachel

TL;DR: The Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) as discussed by the authors is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the experimental hadron yield ratios for central nucleus-nucleus collisions were analyzed in terms of thermal model calculations over a broad energy range, s N N = 27 − 200 GeV, and fits of the experimental data with the model calculations provided the thermal parameters, temperature and baryo-chemical potential at chemical freezeout.

TL;DR: The ALICE Collaboration as mentioned in this paper is a general-purpose heavy-ion experiment designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC.

TL;DR: The ALICE Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) as discussed by the authors is the main device for pattern recognition, tracking, and identification of charged particles in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics, from the proton and nucleus structure at high energy to deconfinement and the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma.