Tag: ALICE
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ALICE congratulates its PhD thesis award winners
On 28 July, the ALICE collaboration awarded the annual prizes for the best PhD theses at a ceremony held in the CERN Main Auditorium as part of the ALICE Physics Week. Since 2008, the collaboration has recognised the most outstanding PhD theses in the field of physics and instrumentation based on the excellence of the
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LHC Run 3: physics at record energy starts tomorrow
The Large Hadron Collider is ready to once again start delivering proton collisions to experiments, this time at an unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV, marking the start of the accelerator’s third run of data taking for physics
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ALICE makes first direct observation of a fundamental effect in particle physics
The observation provides direct experimental access to the mass of an elementary particle known as the charm quark
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Mass matters when quarks cross a quark–gluon plasma
A new analysis by the ALICE collaboration confirms the expected role of quark mass in the interactions of quarks with a quark–gluon plasma
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Thirty years of Hungarian membership of CERN: the President of the Republic visits the Organization
President Áder visited the CMS cavern and the Globe of Science and Innovation to mark the anniversary of his country joining CERN
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ALICE opens avenue for high-precision studies of the strong force
The collaboration shows how proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider can reveal the strong interaction between composite particles called hadrons
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Fresh antimatter study by ALICE will help with search for dark matter
The study of light antinuclei – from creation to annihilation – will bolster future indirect dark matter searches
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Ladislav Sandor (1941–2019)
Ladislav Sandor(1941–2019) — Ladislav Sandor, one of the founders of the ALICE collaboration and leader of the ALICE-Košice team in Slovakia, passed away on 23 May, two days after his 78th birthday. Ladislav was born in the heart of a multicultural region called Spiš in north-eastern Slovakia, with plenty of historical monuments and areas of
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Upgrading ALICE: What’s in store for the next two years?
Major internal improvements await the ALICE detector during CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)
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Quark Matter 2017: understanding the early universe
The LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter conference on how matter behaved in the universe’s first moments