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.

93 results

ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4

The finding also represents the first evidence of the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus yet at the LHC

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Physics
09 December, 2024

CERN70: Tasting the primordial soup

Jürgen Schukraft was the first spokesperson of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

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Experiments
18 October, 2024
Experiments
Feature
18 October, 2024

ALICE probes the strong interaction three-body problem

With new measurements of hadron–deuteron correlations, the ALICE collaboration explores the strong interaction of three-body systems at the LHC.

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Physics
25 September, 2024

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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Physics
12 August, 2024
Physics
News
12 August, 2024

ALICE honours its 2024 Thesis Award winners

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Experiments
09 August, 2024
Experiments
News
09 August, 2024

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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Accelerators
01 August, 2024
Accelerators
News
01 August, 2024

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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Experiments
25 April, 2024

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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Engineering
06 February, 2024
Engineering
News
06 February, 2024

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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Experiments
01 December, 2023
Experiments
News
01 December, 2023

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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Physics
15 December, 2023

Bikash Sinha (1945 – 2023)

Obituary
Physics
21 November, 2023
Physics
Obituary
21 November, 2023

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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Experiments
25 October, 2023
Experiments
News
25 October, 2023