Read article 'ALICE: from LS1 to readiness for Run 2'
It is nearly two years since the beams in the LHC were switched off and Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) began. Since then, a myriad of scientists and engineers have been repairing an...
Read article 'The ALICE computing project'
The ALICE software environment (AliRoot) first saw light in 1998, at a time when computing in high-energy physics was facing a challenging task. A community of several thousand use...
Read article 'ALICE tracks new territory'
The recently installed, upgraded ALICE inner tracking system is the largest pixel detector ever built and the first at the LHC to use monolithic active pixel sensors.
Read article 'ALICE looks to the future'
After more than three years of highly successful operation, the ALICE detector is about to undergo a major programme of consolidation and upgrade during the Long Shutdown 1 ...
Read article 'ALICE gets ready to pinpoint muon pairs'
Résumé ALICE en quête de muons L’expérience ALICE, menée au LHC, vise avant tout à percer le mystère de la matière chaude et dense qui...
Read article 'Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies'
How the experiment employs an arsenal of techniques.
Read article 'ALICE revitalised'
The ALICE experiment is being upgraded to make even more precise measurements of extreme nuclear matter
Read article 'ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)'
Résumé En décembre 1995, ALICE devient la troisième collaboration à soumettre une proposition technique pour le LHC. Contrairement aux deux détecteurs...
Read article 'ALICE through the phase transition'
The ALICE collaboration of some 900 physicists is preparing a detector to study lead-ion collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starting in 2005. By observing the r...
Read article 'ALICE joins jet set'
Résumé Grâce à ses collisions d’ions plomb, le LHC permettra d’étendre l’étude du plasma quarks-gluons à des températures ...
