Tag: ALICE
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It is specialized to detect quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter thought to have formed just after the big bang.
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ALICE honours its 2026 PhD Thesis Award winners
On 22 July 2026, the ALICE Collaboration honoured the winners of its PhD Thesis Award during a special ceremony held as part of its meeting at CERN. The ALICE PhD Thesis Award is dedicated to the memory of Karel Šafařík (1953–2024). Since 2008, ALICE has recognised the most outstanding PhD theses based on the excellence of
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Oxygen collisions at the LHC show new indications of extreme state of matter
One year on from the first-ever collisions of oxygen at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main LHC Collaborations – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – have each reported signs of the state of matter known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP) originating from these collisions. QGP is a state of matter that forms under intense pressure
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Final collisions, new horizons
In the early hours of Sunday, 14 June, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had their last hurrah. In the control rooms of ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – the four major experiments at the accelerator – scientists watched the final collisions burst across their screens like colourful fireworks. The collisions for physics
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ALICE’s upgraded detector showcases its beauty
The ALICE Collaboration has performed the first LHC measurement of beauty-quark production in a previously unexplored momentum range
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ALICE sees new sign of primordial plasma in proton collisions
The ALICE Collaboration takes a step further in addressing the question of whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in proton–proton and proton–nucleus collisions
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ALICE welcomes its new management
From 1 January 2026 onward, Kai Schweda has assumed the role of ALICE spokesperson, alongside Andrea Dainese and Anthony Robert Timmins, new deputy spokespersons of the collaboration
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ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival
Observations of the formation of light nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter
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Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe
The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual “bowling-pin” shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter produced in the aftermath of the Big Bang
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ALICE eyes the cosmos
New data from the ALICE experiment, collected when no particle beams were circulating in the LHC during pauses in Run 2, may contribute to solving a puzzle surrounding cosmic muons
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei