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 ...
Read article 'ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)'
A compilation of articles about the ALICE experiment, its design and its goals.
Read article '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'
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'
How to build a muon spectrometer to study hot quark matter.
Read article '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'
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'
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'
Collisions of lead ions at the LHC will take heavy-ion physics into a new high-energy regime.
