Heavy quarks (HQ) and heavy-flavored hadrons are excellent probes for studying the dynamics of high-energy nuclear collisions and the properties of the hot QCD matter therein produced. Understanding the interactions of HQ propagating through the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) allows to determine its transport coefficients: the description with realistic phenomenological models of the D-meson...
The full characterisation of the properties of the QGP requires high-precision measurements of light and heavy flavour, quarkonium, jet and (real and virtual) photon production over a wide momentum range.
In order to achieve these goals, the ALICE Collaboration has implemented a major upgrade of the experimental apparatus, aimed to improve the pointing resolution and increase the event...
The NA60+ experiment is designed to study the phase diagram of the strongly interacting matter at high baryochemical potential, $\mu_b$ 200-400 MeV at the CERN SPS. Its main goals will be focused on precision studies of thermal dimuons, heavy quark and strangeness production in Pb-Pb collisions at center-of-mass energies ranging from 5 to 17 GeV.
The proposed experimental apparatus will be...
Measurements of heavy baryon production in $pp$, $pA$ and $AA$ collisions from RHIC to top LHC energies have recently attracted more and more attention, currently representing a challenge for the heavy-quark hadronization theoretical understanding.
The $\Lambda_c/D^0$ ratio observed in $AA$ collision at RHIC and LHC energies has a value of the order of the unity. Recent experimental...
