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The ATLAS Inner Detector is responsible for particle tracking in ATLAS experiment at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and comprises silicon and gas based detectors. The combination of both silicon and gas based detectors provides high…

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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…

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A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is one of the four major experiments conducted at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The ALICE detector is currently undergoing an upgrade for the upcoming Run 3 at the LHC. The new Inner Tracking…

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Material Budget Calculation of the new Inner Tracking System, ALICE

The ALICE Collaboration aims at studying the physics of strongly interacting matter by building up a dedicated heavy-ion detector. The Inner Tracking System (ITS) is located in the heart of the ALICE Detector surrounding the interaction…

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The ALICE Inner Tracking System has been recently upgraded to a full silicon detector consisting entirely of MAPS, arranged in seven concentric layers around the LHC beam pipe. Further ahead, during the LHC Long Shutdown 3, the ALICE…

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For Run 4, ALICE is pioneering the construction of truly cylindrical tracking layers, which will improve the measurements of heavy-flavour hadrons and dielectrons. In addition, a Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) for the measurement of direct…

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The present document discusses plans for a compact, next-generation multi-purpose detector at the LHC as a follow-up to the present ALICE experiment. The aim is to build a nearly massless barrel detector consisting of truly cylindrical…

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Heavy-ion physics with the ALICE detector

Selection of recent (in March 2022) results from the heavy-ion experiment ALICE at the CERN LHC, chosen to address various stages of the nucleus-nucleus reaction.

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Central diffraction and ultra-peripheral collisions in ALICE in Run 3 and 4

The ALICE experiment at the LHC is undergoing a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown 2 (2019-2021). In particular, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is being equipped with new GEM-based readout chambers and the readout electronics of…

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ITS3: A truly cylindrical inner tracker for ALICE

After the successful installation and first operation of the new Inner Tracking System (ITS2), which consists of about 10 m$^2$ of monolithic silicon pixel sensors, ALICE is pioneering the usage of bent, wafer-scale pixel sensors for the…

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Status and performance of the ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger

The ALICE apparatus at CERN has undergone significant upgrade during the LHC's Long Shutdown 2 to increase the experiment's rate capability and measurement precision for Run 3 and Run 4. One of the key detectors newly introduced to the…

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After close to 20 years of preparation, the dedicated heavy ion experiment ALICE took first data at the CERN LHC accelerator with proton collisions at the end of 2009 and with lead nuclei at the end of 2010. After a short introduction into…

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Silicon Sensors for Trackers at High-Luminosity Environment

The planned upgrade of the LHC accelerator at CERN, namely the high luminosity (HL) phase of the LHC (HL-LHC foreseen for 2023), will result in a more intense radiation environment than the present tracking system was designed for. The…

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Diffraction physics with ALICE at the LHC

The ALICE experiment is equipped with a wide range of detectors providing excellent tracking and particle identification in the central region, as well as forward detectors with extended pseudorapidity coverage, which are well suited for…

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Characterization Of MOSS For The ALICE ITS3 For The LHC Run 4

ALICE, one of the four main CERN LHC experiments, studies heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies. For LHC Run 4 (starting 2030), ALICE will replace the three innermost cylindrical layers of its inner tracking system during Long…

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The GEM QA Protocol of the ALICE TPC Upgrade Project

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is upgrading its central tracking detector, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC). The installation is foreseen during the second long shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider. The upgrade…

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A truly cylindrical inner tracker for ALICE

After the successful installation and first operation of the upgraded Inner Tracking System (ITS2), which consists of about $10\,$m$^2$ of monolithic silicon pixel sensors, ALICE is pioneering the usage of bent, wafer-scale pixel sensors…

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Minimum-Bias and Early QCD Physics in ALICE

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In addition to its heavy-ion physics program, it also has a rich proton-proton physics program benefiting from a detector with…

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