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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 Jan…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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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