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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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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…

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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…

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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…

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