The ALICE collaboration week was held at CERN from 8 to 12 July 2024. The ALICE Summer party took place on 10 July, attended by ~300 ALICE collaborators and friends.
A new result from ALICE has now added fresh intrigue to interpretations of hadronisation – the process by which quarks and gluons become confined inside colour-neutral groupings such as baryons and mesons.
First Measurement of the |t| Dependence of Incoherent J/ψ Photonuclear Production
The first experimental measurement of the incoherent photonuclear production of J/ψ in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions is better explained by the presence of subnuclear quantum fluctuations of the gluon field.
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.