ALICE
Chips on a ladder: end of production for ALICE-MFT
After more than four years of research and development, design and manufacturing work, the MFT (Muon Forward Tracker), a new detector that will equip the ALICE experiment at the LHC, has seen its construction finalized and is currently under…
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LHC experiments ramp-up activities
Around the world,research centres, laboratories and universities have closed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic — forcing an increasing number of researchers to work from home. Researchers teleworking coordinated with colleagues who had to…
Read moreThe ALICE ITS upgrade: Pixels for quarks
Introduction ALICE, the heavy-ion dedicated experiment at the LHC, will soon have enhanced physics capabilities with a major upgrade of the detectors, data-taking and data-processing systems which will improve the precision of the extracted…
Read moreALICE trigger system: Present and Future
The purpose of any trigger system is to select an event sample strongly enriched in physics processes of interest, while rejecting those not of interest, and to do so in such a way as to make efficient use of the available detectors. The prime…
Read more"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…
Read moreAnti-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…
Read moreALICE 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…
Read moreA 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…
Read moreAn 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…
Read moreALICE Highlights from Strangeness in 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,…
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