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Strangess enhancement observed in proton collisions

In a paper published last month in Nature Physics, the ALICE collaboration reports that proton collisions sometimes present similar patterns to those observed in the collisions of heavy nuclei. This behaviour was spotted through observation of…

Wealth of new results in Quark Matter 2017

Last month, the LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter 2017 conference on how matter behaved in the very early moments of the universe. The programme includes a plethora of presentations on a…

An ambitious p-Pb data taking campaign just came to an end

These asymmetric collisions were originally meant as a benchmark to control for background effects unrelated to the production of a quark-gluon plasma, expected in Pb-Pb collisions simply due to the use of Pb nuclei instead of protons in the…

A new energy frontier for heavy ions

Although they lack the fundamental significance of the constants of Nature, powers of 10 have symbolic importance in human culture. Attaining the age of 100 years is rare enough to be celebrated in many ways around the world. We regularly…

ALICE presents latest results at Hard Probes 2015

ALICE, presented a wealth of scientific results. Equipped with a central barrel with high-resolution tracking systems, several detectors for identifying particles from low to high momentum, electromagnetic calorimeters, and with a muon spectrometer…

ALICE and BASE experiments present new results related to CPT symmetry

In August the ALICE experiment published a precise measurement of the difference between ratios of the mass and electric charge of light nuclei and antinuclei produced during heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. The article published in the journal…

EPS announces the 2015 prizes in the field of high energy physics.

Last month, the High Energy and Particle Physics division of the European Physical Society announced the 2015 prizes for outstanding contributions in the field of high energy physics. The 2015 Young Experimental Physicist Prize was awarded to…

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…

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…

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…

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