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ALICE is the dedicated heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Its main tracking and particle-identification detector is a large volume Time Projection Chamber (TPC). The TPC has been designed to perform well in the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-22 Mesut Arslandok , Ernst Hellbär , Marian Ivanov , Robert Helmut Münzer , Jens Wiechula

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) at the LHC is designed for studies of nuclear matter at extreme temperatures and energy densities, so called Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). Two detectors for measurements of electromagnetic signals,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-04-22 D. Blau

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) of the ALICE experiment will be upgraded during the second long LHC shutdown in $\mathrm{2019}-\mathrm{2020}$. The main goal of the ALICE ITS Upgrade is to enable high precision measurements of low - momentum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-22 D. Andreou

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the LHC experiment dedicated to the investigation of the nature and the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) using heavy-ion collisions. Among its characteristics, excellent particle…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-09-04 Elena Botta

ALICE, which stands for A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is designed to study hadronic collisions at ultrarelativistic energies at the LHC. The primary objective of ALICE is to investigate the properties of quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-02-20 Livia Terlizzi

During the upcoming Runs 3 and 4 of the LHC, ALICE will take data at a peak Pb-Pb collision rate of 50 kHz. This will be made possible thanks to the upgrade of the main tracking detectors of the experiment, and with a new data processing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-12-09 Chiara Zampolli

ALICE is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment dedicated to the study of heavy ion collisions. The main purpose of ALICE is to investigate the properties of a new state of deconfined nuclear matter, the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP).…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Pereira Da Costa Hugo

ALICE is a general purpose experiment dedicated to the study of nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC. After more than 3 years of successful operation, an upgrade of the apparatus during the second long shutdown of LHC (LS2) in 2017/18 is in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Serhiy Senyukov

The ALICE experiment at CERN is undergoing a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the LHC during 2019-2020. The key elements regarding the central barrel are the installation of a new Inner Tracking System (ITS) and the upgrade…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Felix Reidt

A new type of Time Projection Chamber (TPC) has been proposed for the upgrade of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment at CERN) so as to cater to the high luminosity environment expected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) facility in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-17 Saikat Biswas

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

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

The study of heavy ion interactions constitutes an important part of the experimental program outlined for the Large Hadron Collider under construction at CERN and expected to be operational by 2006. ALICE is the single detector having the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Valenti

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

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment focuses on the study of the quark-gluon plasma as a product of heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider). During the Long Shutdown 2 of the LHC in 2019-2020, a major…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-19 Konstantinos Alexopoulos , Filippo Costa

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The main tracking device of ALICE is a large volume TPC. The milestones of the TPC commissioning as well as the current…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Wiechula

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 $50\ \mathrm{kHz}$…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start operation in the end of 2007 colliding proton and lead beams at \surd S = 14 TeV and \surd S_{NN} = 5.5 TeV, respectively. The accelerator and the experiments are under construction and detailed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-07-25 Hans-Ake Gustafsson

The ALICE experiment is devoted to the study of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN LHC. The experimental setup allows for the study of many different observables that contributed to the characterization…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-06-21 A. Marin

After the Long Shutdown 2 the LHC will provide lead-lead collisions at interaction rates as high as 50kz. In order to cope with such conditions the ALICE Time Projection Chamber (TPC) needs to be upgraded. After the upgrade the TPC will run…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-12 Alexander Deisting