Read article 'Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies'
Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies
How the experiment employs an arsenal of techniques.
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Read article 'Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies'
Read article 'The ALICE computing project'
The ALICE computing project
The ALICE software environment (AliRoot) first saw light in 1998, at a time when computing in high-energy physics was facing a challenging task. A community of several thousand use...
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 '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 'Pixels make for perfect particle tracking in ALICE'
Pixels make for perfect particle tracking in ALICE
The silicon pixel detector in ALICE has an important role to play in demanding conditions at the LHC
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.
Read article 'The Inner Tracking System arrives at the heart of ALICE'
The Inner Tracking System arrives at the heart of ALICE
On 15 March 100 physicists and engineers gathered in the ALICE underground cavern to witness the end of a 15 year journey of development, construction, commissioning and testing...
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 'Indian chips on track for ALICE'
Indian chips on track for ALICE
As an observer state of CERN, India is collaborating in many aspects of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project - building components of the accelerator as well as constructing det...
Read article 'A heavy load arrives for ALICE'
A heavy load arrives for ALICE
On 25 September the two large coils for the ALICE dipole magnet arrived at Point 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) after a 1200 km journey from their manufacturer.