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 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'
Under extreme conditions of temperature and/or density, hadronic matter “melts” into a plasma of free quarks and gluons – the so-called quark–gluon plasma (QGP). To...
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 ...
Read article 'ALICE’s dark side'
Precision measurements of the production and annihilation of light antinuclei are sharpening the search for dark matter.
