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 '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 through the phase transition'
While proton-proton collisions will be the principal diet of CERN's LHC machine, heavy-ion collisions will also be on the menu. The ALICE experiment will be ready and waiting.
Read article 'ALICE gets ready to pinpoint muon pairs'
How to build a muon spectrometer to study hot quark matter.
Read article 'ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)'
A compilation of articles about the ALICE experiment, its design and its goals.
Read article 'ALICE’s dark side'
Precision measurements of the production and annihilation of light antinuclei are sharpening the search for dark matter.
