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ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The experiment has also a broad program of QCD measurements in proton-proton (pp) collisions, which have two-fold interest: the study of particle production at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Dainese

This article presents the basic idea of VHMPID, an upgrade detector for the ALICE experiment at LHC, CERN. The main goal of this detector is to extend the particle identification capabilities of ALICE to give more insight into the evolution…

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 (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 detector was designed to study the physics of matter under extreme conditions of high energy density. Different results were reported by the experiment using data from the successful run I of the LHC. The goal of the present work…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Antonio Ortiz

The ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a multi-purpose particle detector, mainly focused on the study of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. In the forward rapidity region, 2.5 $<$ y $<$ 4, ALICE is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-11-04 Luca Quaglia , ALICE collaboration

The physics programme of the ALICE experiment at CERN-LHC comprises besides studies of high-energy heavy-ion collisions measurements of proton-proton interactions at unprecedented energies, too. This paper focuses on the global event…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Ingrid Kraus

Run 5 of the HL-LHC era (and beyond) may provide new opportunities to search for physics beyond the standard model (BSM) at interaction point 2 (IP2). In particular, taking advantage of the existing ALICE detector and infrastructure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-23 Vladimir V. Gligorov , Simon Knapen , Benjamin Nachman , Michele Papucci , Dean J. Robinson

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

The PID problem in high energy physics experiments is analysed with Bayesian technique. The corresponding applicable method is presented.

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Ding Tian

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment at CERN LHC is designed to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. In 2019-2020 the upgrade of CERN LHC will increase the luminosity and the collision…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-01 A. I. Maevskaya

The ALICE High Level Trigger has to process data online, in order to select interesting (sub)events, or to compress data efficiently by modeling techniques.Focusing on the main data source, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), we present two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Lindenstruth , C. Loizides , D. Roehrich , B. Skaali , T. Steinbeck , R. Stock , H. Tilsner , K. Ullaland , A. Vestbo , T. Vik

The ALICE detector, expected to start operating at the Large Hadron Collider this year, was designed specifically for the study of heavy-ion collisions. In this paper we recall the main features of the apparatus and give some examples of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Federico Antinori

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN went through a major upgrade in which some of its subdetectors were replaced with new ones, while others are equipped with new electronics. The aim of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-10-28 Orcel Thys-dingou , Atanda Raji , Zinhle Buthelezi , Siegfried Fortsch

The LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is performing high precision measurements in the flavour sector. An excellent performance of the particle identification (PID) detectors as well as the development of new data taking…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Fabio Ferrari

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) studies the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP): a deconfined state of matter obtained in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. One of the probes for QGP study are quarkonia and open heavy flavour, of which…

The Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) identifies electrons in p+p and in the challenging high multiplicity environment of heavy-ion collisions and provides fast online tracking…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 M. J. Kweon

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of the seven experiments at the the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. ALICE is especially designed for heavy-ion collisions but it also operates a rich proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Eva Sicking

During the LHC Run-I (2010-2013) and Run-II (2015-2018), the selection of interesting events for muon physics in ALICE was performed with a dedicated muon trigger system, based on 72 single-gap bakelite Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs),…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-30 Livia Terlizzi

With the broadening landscape of proposals for future Higgs, top and electroweak physics factories, detector diversity as well as the reach and depth of physics analysis increase. One emerging topic of renewed interest is particle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-01 Ulrich Einhaus