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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LHC collides ions at new record energy

The accelerator is colliding leads ions at an energy about twice as high as that of any previous collider experiment

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Accelerators
25 November, 2015
Accelerators
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25 November, 2015

ALICE investigates 'snowballs in hell'

How is it that loosely bound objects are observed in high-energy nuclear collisions? The ALICE collaboration finds out

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Experiments
22 September, 2015
Experiments
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22 September, 2015

ALICE precisely compares light nuclei and antinuclei

The comparison, published today in <em>Nature Physics</em>, confirms a fundamental symmetry of nature to an unprecedented precision for light nuclei

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Experiments
17 August, 2015

LHC experiments present latest results in Vienna

The world particle-physics community has convened in Vienna for the 2015 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics

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Experiments
27 July, 2015

First images of collisions at 13 TeV

Last night, for the first time, protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV. See the first images

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Accelerators
21 May, 2015
Accelerators
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21 May, 2015

Protons set to collide at 13 TeV to prepare for physics

These first collisions at 13 TeV in the LHC are to set up systems that protect detectors from stray particles before they are fully switched on

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Accelerators
20 May, 2015

Heavy-ion collisions: where size matters

ALICE has used a new technique to look at the size of the final state at ‘freeze-out’ in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions

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Experiments
22 January, 2015
Experiments
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22 January, 2015

Beams come knocking on the LHC's door

Weekend tests with beams brought protons just short of the LHC

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Accelerators
24 November, 2014
Accelerators
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24 November, 2014

ALICE opens its new nerve centre

The new ALICE Run Control Centre (ARC) implements the best and newest solutions for its shift workers and expert operators

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Experiments
19 November, 2014
Experiments
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19 November, 2014

A new Run Control Centre for ALICE

The new ALICE Run Control Centre was inaugurated on the occasion of the collaboration dinner organized at Point 2 during a recent "ALICE week"

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Experiments
28 July, 2014
Experiments
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28 July, 2014

EPS honours CERN's heavy-ion researchers

Scientists with ALICE have been awarded the European Physical Society's Lise Meitner Prize for their work on quark-gluon plasma

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Experiments
11 July, 2014
Experiments
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11 July, 2014

CERN experiments present heavy-ion physics at Darmstadt

At Quark Matter 2014 this week in Germany, the ALICE, ATLAS and CMS experiments are presenting the latest results from the LHC's heavy-ion programme

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Experiments
23 May, 2014