Central Meson Production in ALICE

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN consists of a central barrel, a muon spectrometer and of additional detectors for trigger and event classification purposes. The low transverse momentum threshold of the central barrel gives ALICE a unique opportunity to study the low mass sector of central production at the LHC. First analysis results of meson production in double gap events in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 7 TeV and in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV are presented.Comment: To appear in Proceedings of XIV International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy, june 13-17, 2011, Munich, 6 pages, 6 figure

Central exclusive production in the ALICE experiment at the LHC

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN consists of a central barrel, a muon spectrometer and additional detectors for trigger and event classification purposes. The low transverse momentum threshold of the central barrel gives ALICE a unique opportunity to study the low mass sector of central exclusive production at the LHC.Comment: 5 page

Overview of ALICE results in pp, pA and AA collisions

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is optimized for recording events in the very large particle multiplicity environment of heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies. The ALICE collaboration has taken data in Pb-Pb collisions in Run I and Run II at nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}$ = 2.76 and \mbox{5.02 TeV}, respectively, and in pp collisions at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}$ = 0.9, 2.76, 5.02, 7, 8 and 13 TeV. The asymmetric system p-Pb was measured at a center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s_{\text{NN}}}$ = 5.02 TeV. Selected physics results from the analysis of these data are presented, and an outline of the ALICE prospects for Run III is given.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, Invited Talk at XXIII International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems, September 19-24, 2016, Dubna, to be published in Seminar Proceeding

The ALICE detector at LHC

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider LHC is presented, and an overview of its physics program is given. A few specific observables are discussed in order to illustrate the physics potential of ALICE.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings of XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, Blois, France, may 200

Photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions in ALICE

A review is given on photon-hadron and photon-photon collisions in the ALICE experiment. The physics motivation for studying such reactions is outlined, and the results obtained in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions in Run 1 of the LHC are discussed. The improvement in detector rapidity coverage due to a newly added detector system is presented. The ALICE perspectives for data taking in LHC Run II are summarised.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, Proceedings PHOTON 2015 Conference, 15-19 June, 2015, Budker Institute, Novosibirs