Read article 'Private: Plotting a course to ALICE 3'
Private: Plotting a course to ALICE 3
Preparations are under way for a next-generation heavy-ion experiment for Run 5 of the LHC and beyond.
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Read article 'Private: Plotting a course to ALICE 3'
Read article 'ALICE takes a first look at diffraction'
ALICE takes a first look at diffraction
Diffractive processes represent more than 25% of the cross-section for inelastic proton–proton collisions at the LHC. So, it is only natural that the ALICE collaboration is i...
Read article 'Black holes and qubits'
Black holes and qubits
Michael Duff explains how string theory and M-theory could have practical applications in quantum information theory.
Read article 'ALICE enters new territory in heavy-ion collisions'
ALICE enters new territory in heavy-ion collisions
The LHC dishes up hot dense matter at higher energies than ever before.
Read article 'ALICE looks to the skies'
ALICE looks to the skies
ALICE is one of the four big experiments at CERN’s LHC. It is devoted mainly to the study of a new phase of matter, the quark–gluon plasma, which is created in heavy-ion...
Read article 'ALICE revolutionizes TOF systems'
ALICE revolutionizes TOF systems
The ALICE TOF is made of 1593 MRPCs, each of which is 120 cm long and consists of a double-stack MRPC, with a total of 10 gaps 250 μm wide
Read article 'Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball'
Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball
To see how much of a heavy ion participates in a collision, ALICE must determine a key parameter – centrality.
Read article 'ALICE tracks charm energy loss in the QGP'
ALICE tracks charm energy loss in the QGP
The first direct observation of the suppression of charmed mesons at high transverse-momentum in head-on nucleus–nucleus collisions indicates that charm quarks suffer a strong l...
Read article 'A new focus on forward muons for the ALICE upgrade programme'
A new focus on forward muons for the ALICE upgrade programme
The ALICE experiment, with its state-of-the-art detection systems, produced a wealth of results during Run 1 of the LHC (2009–2013) – driving a new impetus in the field of hea...
Read article 'ALICE unveils mysteries of the J/ψ'
ALICE unveils mysteries of the J/ψ
Analysis of early results from both nucleus–nucleus and proton–proton collisions at the LHC indicate that a final answer on the fate of the J/ψ inside a hot QGP seems to be w...