Tag: ALICE
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ALICE looking into the future
ALICE looking into the future Following a busy year, ALICE is now almost ready for the next run, as the teams make finishing touches before turning their focus towards re-commissioning and calibration. Thanks to the upgrades of the past year, Run2 will provide another in–depth look at the physics of the quark-gluon plasma, with the
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The ALICE TPC Upgrade Plans
The ALICE TPC Upgrade Plans The expected lead-lead collision rate in the LHC Run3 (2019 onwards) is 50 kHz. This corresponds, on average, to a collision every 20 μs. In the ALICE TPC, a 90 m3 gas volume where ionization electrons take 100 μs to drift the full 2.5 m distance to the Readout Chambers,
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EPS Lise Meitner Prize 2014 awarded to ALICE physicists
EPS Lise Meitner Prize 2014 awarded to ALICE physicists On 3rd September 2014, four ALICE physicists received the prestigious Lise Meitner Prize 2014 from the European Physics Society. Johanna Stachel, Peter Braun-Munzinger, Paolo Giubellino, and Jürgen Schukraft were awarded for their outstanding contributions to the development of heavy ion physics, as they have played an
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ALICE uses the T10 line to test its detectors
ALICE uses the T10 line to test its detectors After a long shutdown period, the PS has finally been put into operation and ALICE is making extensive use of it in the East Area. The main goal of these test beams is to qualify new protoypes, calibrate the detectors and to check its electronics, in
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The ALICE Upgrade plans
The ALICE Upgrade plans ALICE, the LHC experiment specifically designed to study the physics of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) and, more generally, of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities is planning a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown 2 foreseen to start in 2018. The new ALICE will have significantly enhanced read-out capabilities
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First year of the LS1: a busy year for ALICE
First year of the LS1: a busy year for ALICE A very intense year for ALICE is coming to a close. The highly successful proton-lead run seems far in the past, although it actually took place at the beginning of this very year. The many interesting and unexpected results from this run have created a
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The new ALICE Membership system
The new ALICE Membership system Catherine Decosse and Stefan Boettger have been collaborating closely with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) since the end of 2012 in order to create the new ALICE Membership system. The new system integrates, in an efficient way, functionalities in accordance with the requirements of the Run2 of
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Concrete Quarks: The Beginning of the End
Concrete Quarks: The Beginning of the End In his talk, George Zweig, reviewed the events that lead to the discovery, and eventual acceptance, of concrete quarks. You can watch his talk here.
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LHC upgrades: the landscape becomes clearer
LHC upgrades: the landscape becomes clearer Many of you have contacted me recently concerning the LHC detector upgrades, with some questions about the planning of future work. It is true that the one year stop after the LHC incident in September 2008, the need of a further shutdown to consolidate the interconnecting splices between magnets