Read article 'ALICE measures the shape of
head-on lead–lead collisions'
One the many surprises to have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and now at CERN's LHC concerns the extreme fluidi...
Read article 'ALICE goes in search of charmonium in the quark–gluon plasma'
The results, presented at the Quark Matter 2011 conference (Heavy ions in Annecy), hint at the recombination of charm and anticharm quarks in the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) formed ...
Read article 'ALICE and the charm of heavy-ion collisions'
This is the first time that D meson suppression has been measured directly in central nucleus–nucleus collisions.
Read article 'ALICE enters new territory in heavy-ion collisions'
The LHC dishes up hot dense matter at higher energies than ever before.
Read article '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.
Read article 'ALICE gets with the flow'
With data from the first heavy-ion run at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has made the first observation of elliptic flow of charged particles in lead-lead collisions at 2.76 TeV...
Read article 'ALICE reveals first results at 7 TeV'
The results confirm that the charged-particle multiplicity appears to be rising with energy faster than expected.
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 '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: The heavy-ion challenge'
When the ideas for ALICE were first formed at the end of 1990, the heavy-ion programme was still in its infancy and very little was known about what physics to expect or what kind ...
