Read article 'Profiling jets with ALICE'
Profiling jets with ALICE
Scaled pT spectra of charged particles in jets for different bins of jet transverse momentum. “Jets are collimated sprays of particles.” This ubiquitous characte...
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Read article 'Private: Plotting a course to ALICE 3'
Private: Plotting a course to ALICE 3
The ALICE detector has undergone significant overhauls during Long Shutdown 2 to prepare for the higher luminosities expected during Run 3 and 4 of the LHC, starting this year (CER...
Read article 'Jet ν2 measurements with ALICE'
Jet ν2 measurements with ALICE
High-energy scattering of partons (quarks and gluons) produces collimated cones of particles called jets, the production rate of which can be calculated using perturbative QCD tech...
Read article 'Heavy-ion physics: past, present and future'
Heavy-ion physics: past, present and future
The heavy-ion physics programme at LHC Run 3 will provide deep insights into the rich field of QCD phenomenology.
Read article 'Producing charm with light'
Producing charm with light
The electric charge of lead ions, when accelerated to ultra-relativistic velocities, is the source of an intense flux of high-energy quasi-real photons.
Read article 'ALICE achieves energy recovery at Daresbury and Cockcroft Institute'
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 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 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 prepares for jet measurements'
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 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.