Aim of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is to investigate the properties of the strongly-interacting matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGO), under the extreme conditions of high temperature and energy density. The QGP is considered as the primordial state of the early Universe for a few millionths of a second after the Big Bang. To explore the properties this new state of matter is vital to reveal the fundamental behaviors of Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD), such as the confinement-deconfinement of color charges and the chiral phase transitions.
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the detector dedicated to study nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN-LHC.
This talk will focus on the recent results observed with ALICE during the LHC RUN-II since 2015. After discussing the results of produced particle collectivity, parity violation of strong interactions, effects included of energy partonic interacting with hot dense medium at TeV energies and new phenomena in small collision systems, the status and prospects of ALICE detector upgrade and future physics with ALICE will be discussed. The Chinese efforts in ALICE will be reported at final as well.
