Tag: ALICE
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“New” ALICE coming to life during LS2
"New" ALICE coming to life during LS2 The ALICE solenoid re-opens its door as the collaboration prepares for the detector upgrade planned for LS2. At 6 a.m. on December 3, 2018, the LHC expert team switched off the engine of the biggest particle accelerator in the world, which will rest for the next two years
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Anti-nuclei in the cosmos and at the LHC
Anti-nuclei in the cosmos and at the LHC The ALICE collaboration has recently released several measurements on the production of anti-deuterons and anti-3He in proton-proton and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC energies. These results are not only interesting for the study of the hot QCD medium produced in heavy- ion collisions, but they also provide crucial
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Heavy-ion collisions at Quark Matter 2018
Heavy-ion collisions at Quark Matter 2018 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/heavy-ion-collisions-quark-matter-2018) CERN experiments presented their latest results from the study of lead-ion collisions at the annual Quark Matter conference, that was held this year in Venice, Italy. The programme includes a plethora of presentations on a variety of topics, spanning QCD at
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New season starts for the LHC experiments
New season starts for the LHC experiments The last 2017 proton-proton collisions took place on 28 November and the LHC machine was shut down during the winter period to allow for planned technical interventions while the LHC experiments profit from this period to perform maintenance work on many sub-detectors. Four months later proton beams were
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Jürgen Schukraft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour
Jürgen Schukraft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour Former ALICE spokesperson Jürgen Schukraft has been recently awarded the Niels Bohr Institute’s Honorary Medal, an honour for his outstanding career in heavy-ion physics and his role as leader of the ALICE experiment. Established in 2010 as a tribute to excellent physicists who have also
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ALICE upgrade plans
ALICE upgrade plans The ALICE experiment prepares upgrades of several subsystems and the online–offline system for data acquisition and processing during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This will enable the experiment to do high precision measurements of rare probes from high to very low transverse momentum while also searching
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A successful heavy-ion campaign for ALICE
A successful heavy-ion campaign for ALICE The LHC stopped its 2017 operation at the beginning of December and the experiments have already started their plan of intervention for the end-of-year break. The last two weeks of data taking have been particularly important for ALICE, since a special run requested by our experiment took place. Proton-proton
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An exceptional year for the EP-DT proton irradiation facility IRRAD
An exceptional year for the EP-DT proton irradiation facility IRRAD The CERN proton irradiation facility (IRRAD) at the PS East Area has been designed and built during LS1 to cope with the increasing need for irradiation experiments of the EP experimental community, working for the High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC and beyond. This new facility
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ALICE Highlights from Strangeness in Quark Matter 2017
ALICE Highlights from Strangeness in Quark Matter 2017 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/alice-highlights-strangeness-quark-matter-2017) The 17th edition of the International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter(SQM) was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 10 to 15 July 2017. This conference, traditionally one of the major appointments for the heavy-ion community, focuses on new
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New LHC results presented at EPS-HEP 2017
New LHC results presented at EPS-HEP 2017 Over 700 physicists coming from 50 countries met in Venice to discuss the newest results in their field at EPS 2017, one of the world’s most important conferences on particle physics. The conference was co-organized by the European Physical Society, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and