Tag: ALICE
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ALICE does the double slit
Using collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern akin to that of the famous double-slit experiment
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ALICE honours its 2024 Thesis Award winners
On 9 July 2024, the ALICE collaboration honoured its PhD Thesis Award winners in a ceremony organised as part of the ALICE collaboration meeting at CERN. Since 2008, ALICE has recognised the most outstanding PhD theses in the fields of physics and instrumentation, based on the excellence of the results obtained, the quality of the
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Accelerator Report: Navigating hot summer days and thunderstorms
The summer is often a very productive period for physics in CERN’s accelerator complex, that is, when the weather remains reasonable…
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ALICE gets the green light for new subdetectors
CERN’s dedicated heavy-ion physics experiment, ALICE, is upgrading its Inner Tracking System and adding a forward calorimeter for the next phase of the LHC upgrade
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Introducing CERN’s robodog
A four-legged robotic solution has completed its first successful radiation protection test inside CERN’s largest experimental area
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Charm is better than beauty at going with the flow
New ALICE measurements shed light on the dynamics of charm and beauty particles in quark–gluon plasma
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ALICE bags about twelve billion heavy-ion collisions
The whopping number of collisions recorded by ALICE during the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the LHC is 40 times greater than the total recorded by the experiment in its previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to 2018
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Bikash Sinha (1945 – 2023)
Bikash Sinha(1945 – 2023) — Bikash Sinha, influential Indian scientist and pioneer in quark–gluon plasma and the early Universe, passed away on 11 August at the age of 78. As one of the ALICE experiment’s early visionaries and architects, his impact on heavy-ion physics is unmistakable. Bikash Sinha was born on 16 June 1945 in
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LIVE: from the CERN Control Centre with the four largest LHC experiments
Join scientists from the four largest LHC experiments and other experts, live at the CERN Control Centre on 2 November 2023, 3 p.m. CET, for a recap of the first heavy-ion run of the LHC Run 3
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Accelerator Report: Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges)
Since the last Accelerator Report, lead-ion beams have been successfully provided to the SPS North Area, in particular to the NA61 experiment, which is their principal user