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In LHC Run 3, ALICE will increase the data taking rate significantly to 50 kHz continuous read-out of minimum bias Pb-Pb collisions. The reconstruction strategy of the online-offline computing upgrade foresees a first synchronous online…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-02 David Rohr , Sergey Gorbunov , Marten Ole Schmidt , Ruben Shahoyan

The LHC Run 5 and 6 data taking phases will bring unprecedented luminosity in high-energy proton-proton and in heavy-ion collisions. The ALICE Collaboration proposes a next-generation experiment, ALICE 3, specifically designed to operate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-19 Robert Vertesi

A major upgrade of the ALICE experiment is in progress and will result in high-rate data taking during LHC Run 3 (2022-2024). The LHC interaction rate at Point 2 where the ALICE experiment is located will be increased to $50\ \mathrm{kHz}$…

In LHC Run 3, the upgraded ALICE detector will record Pb-Pb collisions at a rate of 50 kHz usingcontinuous readout. The resulting stream of raw data at 3.5 TB/s has to be processed with a setof lossy and lossless compression and data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 Michael Lettrich

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 ATLAS experiment has developed extensive software and distributed computing systems for Run 3 of the LHC. These systems are described in detail, including software infrastructure and workflows, distributed data and workload management,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-07-17 ATLAS Collaboration

ALICE records Pb-Pb collisions in Run 3 at an unprecedented rate of 50 kHz, storing all data in continuous readout (triggerless) mode. The main purpose of the ALICE online computing farm is the calibration of the detectors and the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-14 David Rohr

In view of Run 4 at the LHC, presently scheduled from 2029 onwards, ALICE is pursuing several upgrades to further extend its physics reach. In order to improve heavy-flavor hadron and dielectron measurements which rely on secondary…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-31 A. Ferretti

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the CERN LHC experiment optimized for the study of the strongly interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collisions and devoted to the characterization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. To achieve the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-30 Domenico Colella

ALICE has upgraded many of its detectors for LHC Run 3 to operate in continuous readout mode recording Pb--Pb collisions at 50 kHz interaction rate without trigger. This results in the need to process data in real time at rates 100 times…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-02-05 Giulio Eulisse , David Rohr

The ALICE collaboration consolidated and completed the installation of current detectors during LS1 with the aim to accumulate 1 nb$^{-1}$ of Pb-Pb collisions during Run 2 corresponding to about 10 times the Run 1 integrated luminosity. In…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Raphael Tieulent

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

The ALICE Collaboration proposes a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Runs 5 and 6. The detector consists of a large pixel-based tracking system covering eight units of pseudorapidity, complemented by multiple systems for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-27 Nicola Nicassio

ALICE is the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the LHC at CERN and records lead-lead collisions at a rate of up to 50 kHz. The detector with the highest data rate of up to 3.4 TB/s is the TPC. ALICE performs the full online TPC processing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-24 David Rohr

In LHC Run 3, ALICE will increase the data taking rate significantly to continuous readout of 50 kHz minimum bias Pb-Pb collisions. The reconstruction strategy of the online offline computing upgrade foresees a first synchronous online…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-11-29 David Rohr , Sergey Gorbunov , Marten Ole Schmidt , Ruben Shahoyan

ALICE Overwatch is a project started in late 2015 to provide augmented online monitoring and data quality assurance utilizing time-stamped QA histograms produced by the ALICE High Level Trigger. The system receives the data via ZeroMQ,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-02 R. J. Ehlers , J. D. Mulligan

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of four major experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The High Level Trigger (HLT) is a compute cluster, which reconstructs collisions as recorded by the ALICE detector in…

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…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-21 Nazar Burmasov

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

During the upcoming Run 3 and Run 4 at the LHC the upgraded ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) will operate at a significantly higher luminosity and will collect two orders of magnitude more events than in Run 1 and Run 2. A part of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-07 Alla Maevskaya