Read article 'ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)'
ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)
A compilation of articles about the ALICE experiment, its design and its goals.
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Read article 'ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)'
Read article 'ALICE joins jet set'
ALICE joins jet set
Peter Jacobs describes the electromagnetic calorimeter that will study jets.
Read article 'ALICE and CMS line up the final big pieces underground'
ALICE and CMS line up the final big pieces underground
With the completion of two major installation projects, nearly all the infrastructure for the ALICE experiment is now in place in the cavern at Point 2 on the LHC ring, near St. ...
Read article 'ALICE gets ready to pinpoint muon pairs'
ALICE gets ready to pinpoint muon pairs
How to build a muon spectrometer to study hot quark matter.
Read article 'ALICE’s TPC arrives at experiment cavern…'
ALICE’s TPC arrives at experiment cavern…
In early January ALICE's time projection chamber (TPC) moved 300 m from the assembly hall to the experiment cavern, taking four days to complete the journey.
Read article 'ALICE forges ahead with detector installation'
ALICE forges ahead with detector installation
When it starts up the ALICE experiment will observe collisions of heavy ions in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where "fireballs" of extremely hot and dense matter will be flee...
Read article 'ALICE experiment sees first cosmic-ray events'
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 prepares for still higher energies'
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 'ALICE crystals arrive at CERN'
ALICE crystals arrive at CERN
The first 500 crystals for the ALICE experiment's photon spectrometer (PHOS) arrived at CERN in May after a journey via Moscow from the town of Apatity in the Russian arctic region...
Read article 'ALICE through the phase transition'
ALICE through the phase transition
While proton-proton collisions will be the principal diet of CERN's LHC machine, heavy-ion collisions will also be on the menu. The ALICE experiment will be ready and waiting.