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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Happy 25th birthday, ALICE!

A well-attended jubilee event, held at CERN on 21 March, celebrated 25 years of the ALICE collaboration

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13 April, 2018
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13 April, 2018

New permanent ALICE exhibition inaugurated

Located at ALICE’s experiment site, the exhibition is now open for guided tours

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30 January, 2018
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30 January, 2018

LHC experiments highlight 2017 results

On 15 December, the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb reviewed their recent experimental results

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19 December, 2017
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19 December, 2017

Measuring the heaviest anti-nucleus observed so far

The ALICE collaboration has released the measurement of the integrated production yield in heavy-ion collisions the anti-alpha particle

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05 December, 2017
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05 December, 2017

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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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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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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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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30 March, 2017
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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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15 February, 2017
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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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10 February, 2017
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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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09 December, 2016
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09 December, 2016