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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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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Physics
28 May, 2020

HL-LHC equipment installed on both sides of the ALICE experiment

Novel cryostat units have been installed for the High-Luminosity LHC to allow insertion of room-temperature collimators in the LHC’s 1.9 K cryostats

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Accelerators
22 April, 2020

Entering Uncharted Waters

The Large Hadron Collider began its physics programme on this day a decade ago

Feature
Accelerators
30 March, 2020
Accelerators
Feature
30 March, 2020

LS2 Report: the complex case of vacuums in the experiments

New vacuum chambers are being developed for the ALICE and CMS experiments

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Engineering
23 July, 2019

Bottomonium particles don’t go with the flow

The first measurement, by the ALICE collaboration, of an elliptic-shaped flow for bottomonium particles could help shed light on the early universe

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Physics
16 July, 2019

Ladislav Sandor (1941–2019)

Obituary
At CERN
06 June, 2019
At CERN
Obituary
06 June, 2019

ALICE and LHCb upgrade their data centres

In autumn 2018 and spring 2019, new data-centre modules were installed and commissioned at the ALICE and LHCb sites (points 2 and 8 of the LHC)

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Computing
24 May, 2019

The subterranean ballet of ALICE

During the long shutdown of CERN’s accelerators, the ALICE experiment at the LHC is removing and refurbishing or replacing the majority of its detectors

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Experiments
19 March, 2019
Experiments
News
19 March, 2019

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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Experiments
05 February, 2019
Experiments
News
05 February, 2019

LHC report: make way for the heavy ions

The first collisions of lead nuclei mark the start of a new LHC heavy-ion run

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Accelerators
13 November, 2018
Accelerators
News
13 November, 2018

A bumper crop of LHC results at Quark Matter 2018

The main LHC collaborations present a wealth of new results at this year’s Quark Matter conference

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Physics
18 May, 2018