The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC
University of Oslo · Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear · +102 more institutions
Abstract
ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a general-purpose, heavy-ion detector at the CERN LHC which focuses on QCD, the strong-interaction sector of the Standard Model. It is designed to address the physics of strongly interacting matter and the quark-gluon plasma at extreme values of energy density and temperature in nucleus-nucleus collisions. Besides running with Pb ions, the physics programme includes collisions with lighter ions, lower energy running and dedicated proton-nucleus runs. ALICE will also take data with proton beams at the top LHC energy to collect reference data for the heavy-ion programme and to address several QCD topics for which ALICE is complementary to the other LHC detectors. The…
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Authors
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University of Oslo
- AAA. Abrahantes Quintana
University of Oslo
- RAR. Achenbach
Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear
- SAS. Acounis
Heidelberg University, Kirchhoff (Germany)
- DAD. Adamová
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associées, Nantes Université
Topics & keywords
- Large Hadron Collider
- Physics
- Nuclear physics
- Quark–gluon plasma
- Particle physics
- Compact Muon Solenoid
- Super Proton Synchrotron
- Hadron
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