Read article 'ALICE finds a new source of charmonium'
The ALICE collaboration has studied the production of charmonium – bound states of charm and anti-charm quarks – in hadronic as well as in ultra-peripheral collisions of lead nuclei at √sNN = ...
Read article 'Anisotropic flow in Run 2'
Exploiting the data collected during November 2015 with Pb–Pb collisions at the record-breaking energy of √sNN = 5.02 TeV, ALICE measured for the first time the anisotropic flow of charged part...
Read article 'ALICE selects gas electron multipliers for its new TPC'
The ALICE experiment is devoted to the study of strongly interacting matter, where temperatures are sufficiently high to overcome hadronic confinement, and the effective degrees of freedom are ...
Read article 'Neutrons in full flight at CERN’s n_TOF facility'
Accurate knowledge of the interaction probability of neutrons with nuclei is a key parameter in many fields of research. At CERN, pulsed bunches from the Proton Synchrotron (PS) hit the spallat...
Read article 'Exploring the nature of the proposed magic number N = 32'
Magic numbers appear in nuclei in which protons or neutrons completely fill a shell. The existence of magic numbers to explain certain regularities observed in nuclei was discovered in 1949 independen...
Read article 'Jet ν2 measurements with ALICE'
High-energy scattering of partons (quarks and gluons) produces collimated cones of particles called jets, the production rate of which can be calculated using perturbative QCD techniques. In heavy-ion...
Read article 'Manufacturing and delivery of components for the new heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100 at FAIR has begun'
The international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) (CERN Courier May 2007 p23) is currently under construction at GSI, in Darmstadt, Germany. The FAIR accelerators will delive...
Read article 'Fixed-target and heavy-ion physics with LHCb'
Beyond its rich programme in flavour physics based on proton–proton collisions, LHCb opened the door in 2015 to a new domain of physics exploration related to cosmic-ray and heavy-ion physics. D...
Read article 'A new chapter opens with more Pb–Pb collisions for a precision study of hot and dense QCD matter'
After the restart of the LHC physics programme in June 2015 with world-record proton– proton collisions at √s = 13 TeV, nuclear beams reappeared in the LHC tunnel in Novembe...
Read article 'LHCb measures the effective double parton scattering cross-section with unprecedented precision'
In high-energy hadron–hadron collisions, each incoming hadron behaves as a loosely bound system of massless partons – quarks, antiquarks and gluons. The interaction of incoming hadrons is describe...
