articleThe European Physical Journal CAug 14, 2024DIAMOND OA

The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

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Abstract

Abstract The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme energy densities and temperatures. This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of nuclear collisions at the LHC. Its physics programme initially focused on the determination of the properties of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP), a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, created in such collisions. The ALICE physics programme has been extended to cover a broader ensemble of observables related to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions. The experiment has studied Pb–Pb, Xe–Xe, p–Pb and pp collisions in the multi-TeV centre of mass energy range, during the Run 1–2 data-taking periods at…

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Keywords
  • Physics
  • Quark–gluon plasma
  • Large Hadron Collider
  • Quantum chromodynamics
  • QCD matter
  • Alice (programming language)
  • Particle physics
  • Nuclear physics
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