# Recent highlights

## Ultimate Run2 D mesons constrain QGP diffusion coefficient

Nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow coefficient as a function of pT measured in the 0-10% and 30-50% centrality class, respectively, and compared with theoretical model predictions implementing charm-quark transport in the QGP.

## Light-nuclei wave functions probed via coalescence

Measurement of the coalescence parameters B2 (left) and B3 (right) as a function of transverse momentum in high-multiplicity pp collisions and comparison with theoretical predictions corresponding to different nuclear wave functions.

## Midrapidity J/ψ in pp at 5 and 13 TeV

Inclusive J/ψ production cross section measured at midrapidity for pp collisions compared to model calculations (left), and the beauty cross section at midrapidty as a function of c.m. energy (right panel).

## Here’s the dead cone, finally!

Declustering D$^{0}$-meson tagged jets in pp collisions allows for the dynamic reconstruction of gluon emissions in the charm-quark shower, exposing the suppressed emission phase-space known as the dead-cone: arXiv.

## Insight on the strong interaction of p-K pairs

Non-identical particle femtoscopy of kaon-proton pairs produced in Pb–Pb collisions at the LHC provides an accurate measurement of kaon–proton scattering parameters at low relative momentum: arXiv.

## Hadron formation differs outside of jets

In a recent study, the ALICE Collaboration has studied baryon-to-meson ratios with a new twist: by studying the ratios in two parts of the events separately – inside jets and in the event portion perpendicular to a jet cone. arXiv.