How ALICE finds out how much of a heavy ion takes part in a collision

With the long shutdown under way, the ALICE collaboration is preparing for the next 10 years of operation

The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma

A smaller beam pipe and a redesign of the tracker systems are among the upgrades the ALICE experiment will deploy during the long shutdown of the LHC

The first measures the pseudorapidity density of charged particles in p–Pb collisions while the second is on transverse momentum distribution

Newly installed supermodules will give the ALICE detectors more coverage of collision events

Find out the schedule for LHC beams and the physics the LHC experiments will be investigating this year