Tag: ALICE Physics and Detector
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Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe
The first high-energy collisions between light nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider confirm the unusual “bowling-pin” shape of neon nuclei and offer up a new tool to study the extreme state of matter produced in the aftermath of the Big Bang!
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ALICE 3 MID prototype test
ALICE 3 MID prototypes successfully tested in the 2025 test-beam campaign.
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ALICE Thesis Award 2025
On 15 July 2025, the ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners during a special function held as a part of the ALICE week collaboration meeting at CERN.
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ALICE eyes the cosmos
In a recent article published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, the ALICE collaboration reports the detection of around 165 million events containing at least one cosmic muon, as well as 15702 events with more than four cosmic muons.
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ALICE detects the transformation of lead into gold at the LHC
Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei.
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The other 99%
Near-miss collisions at the Large Hadron Collider are shedding light on the dynamics of gluons, which contribute 99% to the mass of protons and neutrons.
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2024 Heavy-ion collisions
2024 Heavy-ion collisions CERN News: On 6 November 2024 at 11.13 am, a new heavy-ion run began at the LHC, smashing together lead ions, containing 208 nucleons (82 protons and 126 neutrons), at an energy of 5.36 TeV per nucleon pair. The lead-ion collisions ended at 6 AM on 25 November. End of Run party:
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ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
The finding by ALICE represents the first evidence of the heaviest antimatter hypernucleus yet at the LHC.
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Strange correlations benchmark hadronisation
Strange correlations benchmark hadronisation Sep/Oct 2024 In high-energy hadronic and heavy-ion collisions, strange quarks are dominantly produced from gluon fusion. In contrast to u and d quarks, they are not present in the colliding particles. Since strangeness is a conserved quantity in QCD, the net number of strange and anti-strange particles must equal zero, making
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ALICE Review Paper – now published in EPJC
The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD.