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The ALICE experiment profited of the Long Shutdown during 2019-2021 in order to expand its physics capabilities and fully profit from the increased LHC luminosity in Run 3. The Inner Tracking System has been replaced with a new silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-01-25 A. Ferretti

The ALICE experiment, currently in the commissioning phase, will study nucleus-nucleus and proton-proton collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We review the ALICE heavy-flavour physics program and present a selection of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Dainese

ALICE will study the physics of the strongly interacting matter produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC where the formation of the Quark Gluon Plasma is expected. The experimental setup, the capabilities of the detector, and a few…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Mercedes López Noriega

Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs), used for the Muon Spectrometer of the ALICE experiment at CERN LHC, are currently operated in maxi-avalanche mode with a low threshold value and without amplification in the front-end electronics. RPC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 Antonio Bianchi

The muon system of the CMS experiment is expected to upgrade all of its subdetectors for the Phase-2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will begin in 2029. The upgrade plans for drift tubes (DTs), cathode strip chambers (CSCs) and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-19 Antonello Pellecchia

ALICE is the LHC experiment devoted to the study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). To probe this high energy density state of strongly interacting matter expected to be produced in heavy-ion collisions at high energies, measurements…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Sarah Porteboeuf-Houssais

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is dedicated to heavy ion physics to explore the structure of strongly interacting matter. The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of ALICE is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Erik Brücken , Timo Hildén

Measurements of the production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity ($2.5 < y < 4.0$) in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 2.76$ and 5.02 TeV with the ALICE detector are presented along with the $R_{\rm AA}$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-11-28 Bharati Naik

The study of heavy ion interactions constitutes an important part of the experimental program outlined for the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN and expected to be operational by 2006. ALICE is the single detector having the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Valenti

The purpose of the ALICE experiment at the LHC is the study of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, a state of matter in which quarks and gluons are deconfined. The properties of this state of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 L. Massacrier

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is undergoing a major upgrade with the goal of increasing the luminosity as more statistics are needed for precision measurements. The presented work pertains to the corresponding upgrade of the ALICE…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-13 Nathan Boyles , Zinhle Buthelezi , Simon Winberg , Amit Mishra

The AlCap experiment is a joint venture between the COMET and Mu2e collaborations that will measure the rate and spectrum of particles emitted after nuclear muon capture on aluminium. Both collaborations will search for the charged lepton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-09-27 Andrew Edmonds

ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is the future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN devoted to the physics of Quantum Chromo-thermo-dynamics. Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (HIC) at LHC aim at the production of a plasma…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Gines Martinez , ALICE collaboration

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) should start its activity of data taking by the end of summer 2009, and will provide beams of p-p and Pb-Pb at colliding energies up to 14 TeV and 5.5 ATeV respectively. The Pb-Pb heavy-ion program aims at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Renaud Vernet

The performance of the ALICE detector in searches for new heavy stable charged particles in pp collisions is discussed in this paper. Gluino R-hadron was chosen as an example of a candidate, and cross sections and kinematic properties were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexandru Dobrin

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is built to study the properties of the strongly interacting matter created in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. With the upgrade of its Inner Tracking System (ITS), the ALICE experiment is going to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 Iouri Belikov

ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is designed to provide excellent capabilities to study the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in the highest energy density regime opened up by the LHC. Quarkonia are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Frederick Kramer

This document describes the plans of the ALICE Collaboration for a major upgrade of its detector, referred to as ALICE 3, which is proposed for physics data-taking in the LHC Run 5 and beyond. ALICE 3 will enable an extensive programme to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-07 ALICE Collaboration

ALICE is a general purpose experiment designed to investigate nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located at CERN. The ALICE detector is optimized for the reconstruction of quarkonia through the dimuon decay…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-09-01 H. Hushnud

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been built in order to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in high-energy nuclear collisions. As heavy-flavor quarks are produced at the early stage of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Robert Grajcarek