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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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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22 January, 2015
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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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19 November, 2014
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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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28 July, 2014
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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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11 July, 2014
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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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23 May, 2014

ALICE upgrades its powerful eyes

Work on the ALICE Photon Spectrometer will make it faster and more stable

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12 August, 2013
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12 August, 2013

ALICE through a gamma-ray looking glass

The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles

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31 July, 2013
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31 July, 2013

Italian Physical Society honours CERN physicists

The Italian Physical Society awarded five physicists for discoveries at the LHC

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26 July, 2013

Interactive timeline charts 20 years of ALICE history

An interactive timeline from the ALICE collaboration tells the story of the detector from its design to current upgrade work

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01 July, 2013

Alice in Particleland: A science comic in the making

Belgian high-school students team up with a Dutch comic-book artist to create a comic about the fascinating world of subatomic particles

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23 May, 2013

ALICE physics week in Padova

The 8th Physics Week of the ALICE Collaboration will take place in Padova, Italy, from 19-24 May 2013

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17 May, 2013
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17 May, 2013