Read article 'ALICE experiment sees first cosmic-ray events'
On 16 June the time projection chamber (TPC) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started to record its first real events, reconstructing the tracks of cosmi...
Read article 'ALICE achieves energy recovery at Daresbury and Cockcroft Institute'
At 2.00 a.m. on 13 December 2008, the commissioning team at the ALICE facility of the UK's Daresbury Laboratory and Cockcroft Institute successfully demonstrated "energy recovery...
Read article 'ALICE prepares for jet measurements'
ALICE is designed to study matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC, in particular using lead ions. The goal is to investigate thoroughly the characteristics of...
Read article 'Producing charm with light'
The electric charge of lead ions, when accelerated to ultra-relativistic velocities, is the source of an intense flux of high-energy quasi-real photons.
Read article 'Profiling jets with ALICE'
Scaled pT spectra of charged particles in jets for different bins of jet transverse momentum. “Jets are collimated sprays of particles.” This ubiquitous characte...
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 tech...
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 n...
Read article 'Heavy-ion physics: past, present and future'
The heavy-ion physics programme at LHC Run 3 will provide deep insights into the rich field of QCD phenomenology.
Read article 'ALICE prepares for still higher energies'
Collisions of lead ions at the LHC will take heavy-ion physics into a new high-energy regime.
Read article '…and time flies for the ALICE detector'
During the last week of April, the ALICE experiment’s time-of-flight (TOF) detector was completed and installed in the experimental cavern.
