Read article '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 'Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies'
How the experiment employs an arsenal of techniques.
Read article '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'
The recent success comes just one year after the facility first achieved energy recovery.
Read article '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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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...
