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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

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to study p-p and Pb-Pb collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. ALICE is equipped with a Muon Spectrometer (MS) to study the heavy charmonia in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Livia Terlizzi

ALICE has unique capabilities among the LHC experiments for particle identification (PID) at mid-rapidity ($|\eta| < 0.9$) over a wide range of transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$). In this proceeding recent measurements of $p_{\rm T}$ spectra…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Christiansen

The ALICE detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consists of a central barrel, a muon spectrometer, zero degree calorimeters and additional detectors which are used for trigger purposes and for event classification. The main detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Schicker

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the only experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dedicated to the study of heavy ion collisions. The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main tracking detector covering the pseudo rapidity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Renault , B. S. Nielsen , J. Westergaard , J. J. Gaardhøje

ALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of heavy-ion collisions. At forward rapidity a muon spectrometer detects muons from low mass mesons, quarkonia, open heavy-flavor hadrons as well as weak bosons. A muon selection based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Massimiliano Marchisone

ALICE at CERN-LHC is an experiment dedicated to the study of high-energy heavy-ion collision. In this paper we will briefly describe the experimental layout and give an overview on the installation status of the ALICE detector components…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 H. R. Schmidt

Identified particle spectra represent a crucial tool to understand the behavior of the matter created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. The transverse momentum p_T distributions of identified hadrons contain informations about the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Leonardo Milano

The ALICE detector at the LHC (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) will carry out comprehensive measurements of high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions, in order to study QCD matter under extreme conditions and the phase transtion between…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Rene Bellwied

The production of $\pi^+$, $\pi^-$, $K^+$, $K^-$, p, and pbar at mid-rapidity has been measured in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 900$ GeV with the ALICE detector. Particle identification is performed using the specific energy loss…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-09-29 ALICE Collaboration

We report on the first measurement of the charged hadron composition in charged jets from pp collisions. The ALICE detector at the LHC was used to study charged pion, kaon and (anti-)proton production in jets. The results were extracted…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Benjamin Andreas Hess

Particle identification is an important feature of the ALICE detector at the LHC. In particular, for particle identification via the time-of-flight technique, the precise determination of the event collision time represents an important…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-04-04 ALICE Collaboration

The Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) is a proposed upgrade to the LHC, to provide high energy, high luminosity electron-proton collisions to run concurrently with Phase 2 of the LHC. The baseline design of a detector for the LHeC is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Peter Kostka , Alessandro Polini , David M. South

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN consists of a central barrel, a muon spectrometer and of additional detectors for trigger and event classification purposes. The low transverse momentum threshold of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Schicker

The excellent particle identification capabilities of the ALICE detector, using the time projection chamber and the time-of-flight detector, allow the detection of light nuclei and anti-nuclei. Furthermore, the high tracking resolution…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Natasha Sharma

The ALICE detector was designed to track and identify particles in a wide transverse momentum range, from more than 100 GeV/c down to ~100 MeV/c. The innermost barrel-like detector, the Inner Tracking System (ITS), is dedicated to precise…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Andrea Rossi

ALICE is the CERN LHC experiment optimised for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterisation of the quark-gluon plasma. To achieve the physics program for LHC Run 3, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-21 Domenico Colella

The ALICE experiment at CERN is preparing for a major upgrade for the third phase of data taking run (Run 3), when the high luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts. The increase in the beam luminosity will result in high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-20 Jubin Mitra , Erno David , Eduardo Mendez , Shuaib Ahmad Khan , Tivadar Kiss , Sophie Baron , Alex Kluge , Tapan Nayak

The ALICE muon trigger (MTR) system consists of 72 Resistive Plate Chamber (RPC) detectors arranged in two stations, each composed of two planes with 18 RPCs per plane. The detectors are operated in maxi-avalanche mode using a mixture of…

The ALICE TPC provides excellent charged particle tracking for the study of pp and Pb-Pb collisions at LHC. The TPC also allows particle identification via the measurement of the specific ionisation dE/dx. At high pT (pT > 3 GeV/c) this is…

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