Read article 'ALICE probes extreme electromagnetic fields'
When fewer than half the available lead nucleons merge and form a quark–gluon plasma, the spectators generate the strongest electromagnetic fields yet probed by scientists.
Read article 'Odessa conference surveys new trends'
The 2019 edition of New Trends in High Energy Physics had an emphasis on heavy-ion physics and strong interactions.
Read article 'Exotic hadrons take centre stage in Guilin'
HADRON2019 reviewed studies of exotic states at facilities around the world.
Read article 'Quark-matter mysteries on the run in Bari'
Among the highlights at Strangeness in Quark Matter 2019 were reports on where strangeness enhancement is localised in phase space.
Read article 'Bottomonium elliptic-flow no-show'
Bottomonia are the first hadrons that do not seem to "flow" in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC.
Read article 'Heavy ions and hidden sectors'
The meeting was inspired by several recent proposals to take advantage of the unique environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC to search for new phenomena.
Read article 'New constraints on charm–quark hadronisation'
Heavier quarks, such as charm, can provide unique insights as they are produced early in the collisions, and their interactions with the QGP differ from their lighter cousins.
Read article 'Studying neutron stars in the laboratory'
The ALICE collaboration is now using the scattering between particles produced in collisions at the LHC to constrain interaction potentials in a new way.
Read article 'The proton laid bare'
What a proton is depends on how you look at it, or rather on how hard you hit it.
Read article 'ALICE sheds new light on high-pT suppression'
These results demonstrate that with the correct treatment of biases from the parton–parton interactions the observed suppression in Pb–Pb collisions is consistent with results from p–Pb collisio...
