ALICE

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is specialized to detect quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter thought to have formed just after the big bang.

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ALICE upgrades its powerful eyes

Work on the ALICE Photon Spectrometer will make it faster and more stable

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12 August, 2013
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12 August, 2013

ALICE through a gamma-ray looking glass

The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles

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31 July, 2013
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31 July, 2013

Italian Physical Society honours CERN physicists

The Italian Physical Society awarded five physicists for discoveries at the LHC

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26 July, 2013

Interactive timeline charts 20 years of ALICE history

An interactive timeline from the ALICE collaboration tells the story of the detector from its design to current upgrade work

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01 July, 2013

Alice in Particleland: A science comic in the making

Belgian high-school students team up with a Dutch comic-book artist to create a comic about the fascinating world of subatomic particles

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23 May, 2013

ALICE physics week in Padova

The 8th Physics Week of the ALICE Collaboration will take place in Padova, Italy, from 19-24 May 2013

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17 May, 2013
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17 May, 2013

Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball

How ALICE finds out how much of a heavy ion takes part in a collision

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02 May, 2013

ALICE: Upgrade work begins

With the long shutdown under way, the ALICE collaboration is preparing for the next 10 years of operation

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29 April, 2013
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29 April, 2013

ALICE scrutinizes proton-lead run for quark-gluon plasma

The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma

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Accelerators
22 January, 2013
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22 January, 2013

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ALICE plans future upgrades

A smaller beam pipe and a redesign of the tracker systems are among the upgrades the ALICE experiment will deploy during the long shutdown of the LHC

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25 October, 2012
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25 October, 2012

ALICE releases papers on first proton-lead run at LHC

The first measures the pseudorapidity density of charged particles in p–Pb collisions while the second is on transverse momentum distribution

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23 October, 2012
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23 October, 2012