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: preparations for a new season of physics

Adjustments to the thousands of pieces of equipment making up the LHC are ongoing before data taking can start for 2017

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Accelerators
15 May, 2017

New ALICE results show novel phenomena in proton collisions

Published in Nature Physics ALICE reports proton collisions sometimes present similar patterns to those observed in the collisions of heavy nuclei

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Experiments
05 May, 2017

ALICE’s wonders reach out to kids in Prévessin

In March, a primary school named “ALICE” was inaugurated in Prévessin-Moëns. The name was chosen as a tribute to the ALICE experiment at CERN.

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Experiments
25 April, 2017

A wealth of precise new results at Moriond

At the 52nd Rencontres de Moriond conference CERN collaborations presented many new results, including their first ones with the full 13 TeV dataset

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Experiments
30 March, 2017
Experiments
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30 March, 2017

EYETS report: painstaking work on the detectors

On the experiments’ side, the extended year-end technical stop is a precious opportunity to carry out repairs and maintenance works on their detectors

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Experiments
15 February, 2017
Experiments
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15 February, 2017

Quark Matter 2017: understanding the early universe

The LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter conference on how matter behaved in the universe's first moments

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Experiments
10 February, 2017
Experiments
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10 February, 2017

The 4th ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Career Networking Event

The “ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Career Networking Event” provided early career researchers with an insight into career opportunities outside academia

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Experiments
09 December, 2016
Experiments
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09 December, 2016

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