Read article '…and time flies for the ALICE detector'
…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.
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Read article '…and time flies for the ALICE detector'
Read article 'First ions for ALICE and rings for LHCb'
First ions for ALICE and rings for LHCb
Injection tests on 25–29 September delivered heavy ions for the first time to the threshold of the LHC. Particles were extracted from the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and tran...
Read article 'First jet measurements with ALICE'
First jet measurements with ALICE
When quarks and gluons (partons) in opposing beams at high-energy hadron colliders meet they can scatter violently to produce correlated showers of particles, or “jets”...
Read article 'ALICE prepares for high-luminosity LHC'
ALICE prepares for high-luminosity LHC
The LHC is preparing for a major high-luminosity upgrade (HL-LHC) with the objective to increase the instantaneous luminosity to around 2 × 1035 cm–2 s–1 for proton–...
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Read article 'ALICE measures shape of the QGP fireball at freeze-out'
ALICE measures shape of the QGP fireball at freeze-out
Heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies create a hot and dense medium of deconfined quarks and gluons, known as the quark–gluon plasma (QGP). The QGP fireball first expands, cools a...
Read article 'ALICE shines light inside lead nuclei'
ALICE shines light inside lead nuclei
The collaboration is using the quasi-real photons which accompany ultra-relativistic proton and lead beams to measure the photoproduction of charmonia and constrain "nuclear shadow...
Read article 'ALICE looks through the Milky Way'
ALICE looks through the Milky Way
New results from the ALICE collaboration that probe the Milky Way's transparency to antimatter serve as an important guide for dark-matter searches.
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Read article '…while ALICE installs the first detectors'
…while ALICE installs the first detectors
In mid-July, the ALICE Collaboration reached important milestones with the installation of the trigger and tracking chambers of the muon spectrometer.
Read article 'UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays'
UK’s ALICE facility collides beams to make X-rays
The recent success comes just one year after the facility first achieved energy recovery.
Read article 'ALICE collaboration measures the size of the fireball in heavy-ion collisions'
ALICE collaboration measures the size of the fireball in heavy-ion collisions
The ALICE collaboration has measured the size of the pion-emitting system in central lead–ion collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair.