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The ALICE TPC, a large 3-dimensional tracking device with fast readout for ultra-high multiplicity events

The design, construction, and commissioning of the ALICE Time-Projection Chamber (TPC) is described. It is the main device for pattern recognition, tracking, and identification of charged particles in the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-20 J. Alme , Y. Andres , H. Appelshauser , S. Bablok , N. Bialas , R. Bolgen , U. Bonnes , R. Bramm , P. Braun-Munzinger , R. Campagnolo , P. Christiansen , A. Dobrin , C. Engster , D. Fehlker , P. Foka , U. Frankenfeld , J. J. Gaardhoje , C. Garabatos , P. Glassel , C. Gonzalez Gutierrez , P. Gros , H. -A. Gustafsson , H. Helstrup , M. Hoch , M. Ivanov , R. Janik , A. Junique , A. Kalweit , R. Keidel , S. Kniege , M. Kowalski , D. T. Larsen , Y. Lesenechal , P. Lenoir , N. Lindegaard , C. Lippmann , M. Mager , M. Mast , A. Matyja , M. Munkejord , L. Musa , B. S. Nielsen , V. Nikolic , H. Oeschler , E. K. Olsen , A. Oskarsson , L. Osterman , M. Pikna , A. Rehman , G. Renault , R. Renfordt , S. Rossegger , D. Rohrich , K. Roed , M. Richter , G. Rueshmann , A. Rybicki , H. Sann , H. -R. Schmidt , M. Siska , B. Sitar , C. Soegaard , H. -K. Soltveit , D. Soyk , J. Stachel , H. Stelzer , E. Stenlund , R. Stock , P. Strmen , I. Szarka , K. Ullaland , D. Vranic , R. Veenhof , J. Westergaard , J. Wiechula , B. Windelband

The ALICE Inner Tracking System Upgrade

A central component of the ALICE Upgrade will be a completely new Inner Tracking System (ITS). The performance of the new ITS will be a significant improvement over that of the present ITS, in particular in the areas of material budget,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Roy Lemmon

UPC physics with ALICE in Run 3

The ALICE experiment has undergone a major detector upgrade for Run 3, expanding its detection capabilities for a wide variety of studies. The new continuous readout has significantly enhanced the physics potential for ultra-peripheral…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-30 Anisa Khatun

A next-generation LHC heavy-ion experiment

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…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-03 D. Adamová , G. Aglieri Rinella , M. Agnello , Z. Ahammed , D. Aleksandrov , A. Alici , A. Alkin , T. Alt , I. Altsybeev , D. Andreou , A. Andronic , F. Antinori , P. Antonioli , H. Appelshäuser , R. Arnaldi , I. C. Arsene , M. Arslandok , R. Averbeck , M. D. Azmi , X. Bai , R. Bailhache , R. Bala , L. Barioglio , G. G. Barnaföldi , L. S. Barnby , P. Bartalini , K. Barth , S. Basu , F. Becattini , C. Bedda , I. Belikov , F. Bellini , R. Bellwied , S. Beole , L. Bergmann , R. A. Bertens , M. Besoiu , L. Betev , A. Bhatti , A. Bianchi , L. Bianchi , J. Bielčík , J. Bielčíková , A. Bilandzic , S. Biswas , R. Biswas , D. Blau , F. Bock , M. Bombara , M. Borri , P. Braun-Munzinger , M. Bregant , G. E. Bruno , M. D. Buckland , H. Buesching , S. Bufalino , P. Buncic , J. B. Butt , A. Caliva , P. Camerini , F. Carnesecchi , J. Castillo Castellanos , F. Catalano , S. Chapeland , M. Chartier , C. Cheshkov , B. Cheynis , V. Chibante Barroso , D. D. Chinellato , P. Chochula , T. Chujo , C. Cicalo , F. Colamaria , D. Colella , M. Concas , Z. Conesa del Valle , G. Contin , J. G. Contreras , F. Costa , B. Dönigus , T. Dahms , A. Dainese , J. Dainton , A. Danu , S. Das , D. Das , S. Dash , A. Dash , G. David , A. De Caro , G. de Cataldo , A. De Falco , N. De Marco , S. De Pasquale , S. Deb , D. Di Bari , A. Di Mauro , T. Dietel , R. Divià , U. Dmitrieva , A. Dobrin , A. K. Dubey , A. Dubla , D. Elia , B. Erazmus , A. Erokhin , G. Eulisse , D. Evans , L. Fabbietti , M. Faggin , P. Fecchio , A. Feliciello , G. Feofilov , A. Fernández Téllez , A. Festanti , S. Floerchinger , P. Foka , S. Fokin , A. Franco , C. Furget , A. Furs , J. Gaardhøje , M. Gagliardi , P. Ganoti , C. Garabatos , E. Garcia-Solis , C. Gargiulo , P. Gasik , M. B. Gay Ducati , M. Germain , P. Ghosh , P. Giubellino , P. Giubilato , P. Glässel , V. Gonzalez , O. Grachov , A. Grigoryan , S. Grigoryan , F. Grosa , J. F. Grosse-Oetringhaus , R. Guernane , T. Gunji , R. Gupta , A. Gupta , M. K. Habib , H. Hamagaki , J. W. Harris , D. Hatzifotiadou , S. T. Heckel , E. Hellbär , H. Helstrup , T. Herman , H. Hillemanns , C. Hills , B. Hippolyte , S. Hornung , P. Hristov , J. P. Iddon , S. Igolkin , G. Innocenti , M. Ippolitov , M. Ivanov , A. Jacholkowski , M. Jung , A. Jusko , M. K. Köhler , S. Kabana , A. Kalweit , A. Karasu Uysal , T. Karavicheva , U. Kebschull , R. Keidel , M. Keil , B. Ketzer , S. A. Khan , A. Khanzadeev , Y. Kharlov , A. Khuntia , B. Kim , J. Kim , M. Kim , J. Klein , C. Klein , C. Klein-Bösing , S. Klewin , A. Kluge , M. L. Knichel , C. Kobdaj , M. Kofarago , P. J. Konopka , V. Kovalenko , I. Králik , M. Krüger , L. Kreis , M. Krivda , F. Krizek , M. Kroesen , E. Kryshen , V. Kučera , C. Kuhn , L. Kumar , S. Kundu , S. Kushpil , M. J. Kweon , M. Kwon , Y. Kwon , P. Lévai , S. L. La Pointe , E. Laudi , T. Lazareva , R. Lea , L. Leardini , S. Lee , R. C. Lemmon , R. Lietava , B. Lim , V. Lindenstruth , A. Lindner , C. Lippmann , J. Liu , J. Lopez Lopez , C. Lourenco , G. Luparello , S. M. Mahmood , A. Maire , V. Manzari , Y. Mao , A. Marín , M. Marchisone , G. V. Margagliotti , M. Marquard , P. Martinengo , S. Masciocchi , M. Masera , E. Masson , A. Mastroserio , A. M. Mathis , A. Matyja , M. Mazzilli , M. A. Mazzoni , L. Micheletti , A. N. Mishra , D. Miskowiec , B. Mohanty , M. Mohisin Khan , A. Morsch , T. Mrnjavac , V. Muccifora , D. Mühlheim , S. Muhuri , J. D. Mulligan , M. G. Munhoz , R. H. Munzer , H. Murakami , L. Musa , B. Naik , B. K. Nandi , R. Nania , T. K. Nayak , D. Nesterov , G. Nicosia , S. Nikolaev , V. Nikulin , F. Noferini , J. Norman , A. Nyanin , V. Okorokov , C. Oppedisano , J. Otwinowski , K. Oyama , M. Płoskoń , Y. Pachmayer , A. K. Pandey , C. Pastore , J. Pawlowski , H. Pei , T. Peitzmann , D. Peresunko , M. Petrovici , R. P. Pezzi , S. Piano , E. Prakasa , S. K. Prasad , R. Preghenella , F. Prino , C. A. Pruneau , I. Pshenichnov , M. Puccio , J. Pucek , E. Quercigh , D. Röhrich , L. Ramello , F. Rami , S. Raniwala , R. Raniwala , R. Rath , I. Ravasenga , A. Redelbach , K. Redlich , F. Reidt , K. Reygers , V. Riabov , P. Riedler , W. Riegler , D. Rischke , C. Ristea , S. P. Rode , M. Rodríguez Cahuantzi , D. Rohr , A. Rossi , R. Rui , A. Rustamov , A. Rybicki , K. Šafařík , R. Sadikin , S. Sadovsky , R. Sahoo , P. Sahoo , P. K. Sahu , J. Saini , V. Samsonov , P. Sarma , H. S. Scheid , R. Schicker , A. Schmah , M. O. Schmidt , C. Schmidt , Y. Schutz , K. Schweda , E. Scomparin , J. E. Seger , S. Senyukov , A. Seryakov , R. Shahoyan , N. Sharma , S. Siddhanta , T. Siemiarczuk , R. Singh , M. Sitta , H. Soltveit , M. Spyropoulou-Stassinaki , J. Stachel , T. Sugitate , S. Sumowidagdo , X. Sun , J. Takahashi , C. Terrevoli , A. Toia , N. Topilskaya , S. Tripathy , S. Trogolo , V. Trubnikov , W. H. Trzaska , B. A. Trzeciak , T. S. Tveter , A. Uras , G. L. Usai , G. Valentino , L. V. R. van Doremalen , M. van Leeuwen , P. Vande Vyvre , M. Vasileiou , V. Vechernin , L. Vermunt , O. Villalobos Baillie , T. Virgili , A. Vodopyanov , S. A. Voloshin , G. Volpe , B. von Haller , I. Vorobyev , Y. Wang , M. Weber , A. Wegrzynek , D. F. Weiser , S. C. Wenzel , J. P. Wessels , J. Wiechula , U. Wiedemann , J. Wilkinson , B. Windelband , M. Winn , N. Xu , K. Yamakawa , Z. Yin , I. -K. Yoo , J. H. Yoon , A. Yuncu , V. Zaccolo , C. Zampolli , A. Zarochentsev , B. Zhang , X. Zhang , C. Zhao , V. Zherebchevskii , D. Zhou , Y. Zhou , Y. Zhou , G. Zinovjev

HL-LHC layout for fixed-target experiments in ALICE based on crystal-assisted beam halo splitting

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator colliding beams of protons and lead ions at energies up to 7 ZTeV, Z is the atomic…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Marcin Patecki , Alex Fomin , Daniele Mirarchi , Stefano Redaelli , Cynthia Hadjidakis , Francesca Galluccio , Walter Scandale

Jet physics in ALICE

This work aims at the performance of the ALICE detector for the measurement of high-energy jets at mid-pseudo-rapidity in ultra-relativistic nucleus--nucleus collisions at LHC and their potential for the characterization of the partonic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Loizides

The International Linear Collider. A Global Project

A large, world-wide community of physicists is working to realise an exceptional physics program of energy-frontier, electron-positron collisions with the International Linear Collider (ILC). This program will begin with a central focus on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-29 Hiroaki Aihara , Jonathan Bagger , Philip Bambade , Barry Barish , Ties Behnke , Alain Bellerive , Mikael Berggren , James Brau , Martin Breidenbach , Ivanka Bozovic-Jelisavcic , Philip Burrows , Massimo Caccia , Paul Colas , Dmitri Denisov , Gerald Eigen , Lyn Evans , Angeles Faus-Golfe , Brian Foster , Keisuke Fujii , Juan Fuster , Frank Gaede , Jie Gao , Paul Grannis , Christophe Grojean , Andrew Hutton , Marek Idzik , Andrea Jeremie , Kiyotomo Kawagoe , Sachio Komamiya , Tadeusz Lesiak , Aharon Levy , Benno List , Jenny List , Shinichiro Michizono , Akiya Miyamoto , Joachim Mnich , Hugh Montgomery , Hitoshi Murayama , Olivier Napoly , Yasuhiro Okada , Carlo Pagani , Michael Peskin , Roman Poeschl , Francois Richard , Aidan Robson , Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius , Marcel Stanitzki , Steinar Stapnes , Jan Strube , Atsuto Suzuki , Junping Tian , Maksym Titovx , Marcel Vos , Nicholas Walkerx , Hans Weise , Andrew White , Graham Wilson , Marc Winter , Sakue Yamada , Akira Yamamoto , Hitoshi Yamamoto , Satoru Yamashita

Upgrade of the Inner Tracking System of ALICE

The upgrade of the Inner Tracking System (ITS) of ALICE is planned for the second long shutdown of the LHC in 2019-2020. The ALICE physics program after the shutdown requires the ITS to have improved tracking capabilities and improved…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-30 Monika Kofarago

Physics Interplay of the LHC and the ILC

Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the International e+e- Linear Collider (ILC) will be complementary in many respects, as has been demonstrated at previous generations of hadron and lepton colliders. This report addresses the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-27 LC Study Group , G. Weiglein , T. Barklow , E. Boos , A. De Roeck , K. Desch , F. Gianotti , R. Godbole , J. F. Gunion , H. E. Haber , S. Heinemeyer , J. L. Hewett , K. Kawagoe , K. Monig , M. M. Nojiri , G. Polesello , F. Richard , S. Riemann , W. J. Stirling , A. G. Akeroyd , B. C. Allanach , D. Asner , S. Asztalos , H. Baer , M. Battaglia , U. Baur , P. Bechtle , G. Belanger , A. Belyaev , E. L. Berger , T. Binoth , G. A. Blair , S. Boogert , F. Boudjema , D. Bourilkov , W. Buchmuller , V. Bunichev , G. Cerminara , M. Chiorboli , H. Davoudiasl , S. Dawson , S. De Curtis , F. Deppisch , M. A. Diaz , M. Dittmar , A. Djouadi , D. Dominici , U. Ellwanger , J. L. Feng , I. F. Ginzburg , A. Giolo-Nicollerat , B. K. Gjelsten , S. Godfrey , D. Grellscheid , J. Gronberg , E. Gross , J. Guasch , K. Hamaguchi , T. Han , J. Hisano , W. Hollik , C. Hugonie , T. Hurth , J. Jiang , A. Juste , J. Kalinowski , W. Kilian , R. Kinnunen , S. Kraml , M. Krawczyk , A. Krokhotine , T. Krupovnickas , R. Lafaye , S. Lehti , H. E. Logan , E. Lytken , V. Martin , H. -U. Martyn , D. J. Miller , S. Moretti , F. Moortgat , G. Moortgat-Pick , M. Muhlleitner , P. Niezurawski , A. Nikitenko , L. H. Orr , P. Osland , A. F. Osorio , H. Pas , T. Plehn , W. Porod , A. Pukhov , F. Quevedo , D. Rainwater , M. Ratz , A. Redelbach , L. Reina , T. Rizzo , R. Ruckl , H. J. Schreiber , M. Schumacher , A. Sherstnev , S. Slabospitsky , J. Sola , A. Sopczak , M. Spira , M. Spiropulu , Z. Sullivan , M. Szleper , T. M. P. Tait , X. Tata , D. R. Tovey , A. Tricomi , M. Velasco , D. Wackeroth , C. E. M. Wagner , S. Weinzierl , P. Wienemann , T. Yanagida , A. F. Zarnecki , D. Zerwas , P. M. Zerwas , L. Zivkovic

Open heavy flavour analysis with the ALICE experiment at LHC

The ALICE experiment at the LHC was taking data in proton-proton collisions at the center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV starting from March till the end of October 2010. First heavy-ion collisions were delivered during November 2010. Among other…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2013-04-09 Serhiy Senyukov for ALICE collaboration

Particle Identification in the ALICE Experiment

The particle identification capabilities of the ALICE experiment are unique among the four major LHC experiments. The working principles and excellent performance of the central barrel detectors in a high-multiplicity environment are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexander Kalweit

Latest results on the production of hadronic resonances in ALICE at the LHC

Measurement of short-lived hadronic resonances are used to study different aspects of particle production and collision dynamics in pp, p-A and relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The yields of resonances are sensitive to the competing…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Arvind Khuntia

First ALICE results from heavy-ion collisions at the LHC

The ALICE detector recorded Pb-Pb collisions at sqrtsNN = 2.76 TeV at the LHC in November-December 2010. We present the results of the measurements that provide a first characterization of the hot and dense state of strongly-interacting…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea Dainese

Upgrade of the ALICE central barrel tracking detectors: ITS and TPC

The ALICE Collaboration will undertake a major upgrade of the detector apparatus during the second LHC Long Shutdown LS2 (2019-2020) in view of the Runs 3 and 4 (2021-2029). The objective of the upgrade is two-fold: i) an improvement of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-08 Gasik fo the ALICE Collaboration

AI and Theoretical Particle Physics

Theoretical particle physicists continue to push the envelope in both high performance computing and in managing and analyzing large data sets. For example, the goals of sub-percent accuracy in predictions of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-05-13 Rajan Gupta , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Boram Yoon

Prospects for strangeness measurement in ALICE

The study of strangeness production at LHC will bring significant information on the bulk chemical properties, its dynamics and the hadronisation mechanisms involved at these energies. The ALICE experiment will measure strange particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Vernet

Fast TPC Online Tracking on GPUs and Asynchronous Data Processing in the ALICE HLT to facilitate Online Calibration

ALICE (A Large Heavy Ion Experiment) is one of the four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which is today the most powerful particle accelerator worldwide. The High Level Trigger (HLT) is an online compute farm of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 David Rohr , Sergey Gorbunov , Mikolaj Krzewicki , Timo Breitner , Matthias Kretz , Volker Lindenstruth

The International Cosmic Day - An Outreach Event for Astroparticle Physics

The International Cosmic Day (ICD) is an astroparticle physics outreach event for high-school students and brings together students and different physics outreach projects from all over the world. Groups of scientists, teachers, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Moritz Hütten , Timo Karg , Carolin Schwerdt , Constantin Steppa , Michael Walter

Future ALICE upgrades for Run 4 and Beyond

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…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-11-10 H. Sebastian Scheid

System-size dependence of particle production at mid- and forward rapidity with ALICE

The pseudorapidity densities of charged particles and inclusive photons produced in high energy nuclear collisions are essential observables to characterise the global properties of the collisions, such as the achieved energy density, and…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-11-15 Abhi Modak