Probing the Hot QCD Matter via Quarkonia at the Next-Generation Heavy-Ion Experiment at LHC

Abstract

Quarkonia represent one of the most valuable probes of the deconfined quark–gluon hot medium since the very first experimental studies with ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. A significant step forward in characterizing the QCD matter via systematic studies of quarkonia production will be performed by the next-generation heavy-ion experiment ALICE 3, a successor of the ongoing ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The new advanced detector of ALICE 3 will allow for exploring the production of S- and P-state quarkonia at high statistics, at low and moderate transverse momenta ranges. The performance of ALICE 3 for quarkonia measurements and the requirements for the detectors are discussed.

Keywords

• ultrarelativistic proton and heavy-ion collisions
• LHC
• heavy quarks
• quarkonium
• detector performance
• simulations