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ALICE is a dedicated experiment built to probe and explore the high-density, deconfined QCD matter produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The complexity of these collisions—featuring numerous competing physics processes that influence the final detected particles—requires a vast amount of data and diverse measurements to unravel the properties of strongly interacting matter at the highest temperatures ever achieved in the laboratory. To that end, ALICE measures a wide array of particles, different observables, and has collected data from Pb–Pb, Xe–Xe, p–Pb and pp collisions at multi-TeV center-of-mass energies. Following major upgrades implemented during Long Shutdown 2, ALICE has been collecting data since the start of Run 3 in 2022. These upgrades, which include increased readout rates and improved vertex resolution, enable ALICE to record a much larger integrated luminosity in Pb–Pb, pp, and p–Pb collisions during Runs 3 and 4. A summary overview of recent ALICE experimental physics results will be discussed with a selection of few representative measurements, with particular attention to developments led by groups in South America.
