Production of Light-flavour Hadrons in the ALICE Experiment at the CERN LHC

The ALICE experiment is dedicated to studying the hot and dense nuclear matter created in heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. A crucial part of the ALICE physics programme is to study small collision systems, such as proton–proton and proton–lead collisions, and compare them with the heavy-ion ones in order to disentangle effects coming from individual nucleon–nucleon interactions or from cold nuclear matter. In this contribution, the results on light-flavour hadron production from small (\(pp\) and \(p\)–Pb) to large collision systems (Pb–Pb) at various energies measured by ALICE are reported. Abstract Published by the Jagiellonian University 2025 authors