The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD
Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associées · IMT Atlantique · +6 more institutions
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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- Physics
- Quark–gluon plasma
- Large Hadron Collider
- Quantum chromodynamics
- QCD matter
- Alice (programming language)
- Particle physics
- Nuclear physics
- Affordable and clean energy