Recent Results from the ALICE Collaboration

The world, as we know, is composed of quarks, gluons, and leptons and it is governed by four fundamental interactions. One of them is the strong interaction, described by the theory of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD), responsible for the confinement of quarks inside nucleons. The only way to free experimentally quarks from their confined state is to put the nuclear matter under extreme conditions of high temperature and/or energy density with relativistic collisions of heavy ions. This deconfined medium is called “Quark Gluon Plasma” (QGP) [1].