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ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment)

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider is one of the largest experiments in the world, devoted to studying the physics of strongly interacting matter at the highest energy densities reached so far in the laboratory. In such conditions, an extreme phase of matter called the quark-gluon plasma is formed. Our universe is thought to have been in such a primordial state for the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang before quarks and gluons were bound together to form protons and neutrons.

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ALICE Thesis Award 2025

ALICE Thesis Award 2025 ( )


On 15 July 2025, the ALICE collaboration celebrated its PhD thesis award winners during a special function held as a part of the ALICE week collaboration meeting at CERN: Read more
Multimuons

ALICE eyes the cosmos ( )


In a recent article published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, the ALICE collaboration reports the detection of around 165 million events containing at least one cosmic muon, as well as 15702 events with more than four cosmic muons: read more ....
ALICE radial flow

ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon ( )


ALICE and ATLAS results demonstrate that the isotropic expansion of the QGP in heavy-ion collisions exhibits clear signatures of collective behaviour: Read more