English
Related papers

Related papers: Improvements of the GPU Processing Framework for A…

200 papers

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

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is dedicated to heavy ion physics to explore the structure of strongly interacting matter. The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of ALICE is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 Erik Brücken , Timo Hildén

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) has been conceived and constructed as a heavy-ion experiment at the LHC. During LHC Runs 1 and 2, it has produced a wide range of physics results using all collision systems available at the LHC. In…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-10 ALICE Collaboration

ALICE will increase the data-taking rate for Run 3 significantly to 50 kHz continuous readout of minimum bias Pb--Pb collisions. The foreseen reconstruction strategy consists of 2 phases: a first synchronous online reconstruction stage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-18 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

For LHC Run 3, the ALICE Time Projection Chamber was upgraded to operate in continuous readout mode. Interaction rates of up to 50 kHz in Pb-Pb collisions require real-time processing of more than 3 TB/s of raw detector data. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-18 J. Alme , T. Alt , C. Andrei , V. Anguelov , H. Appelshäuser , M. Arslandok , R. Averbeck , M. Ball , G. G. Barnaföldi , P. Becht , R. Bellwied , A. Berdnikova , B. Blidaru , L. Boldizsár , L. Bratrud , P. Braun-Munzinger , M. Bregant , C. L. Britton , H. Büsching , H. Caines , P. Chatzidaki , P. Christiansen , T. M. Cormier , L. Döpper , R. Ehlers , L. Fabbietti , F. Flor , J. J. Gaardhøje , M. G. Munhoz , C. Garabatos , P. Gasik , Á. Gera , P. Glässel , N. Grünwald , T. Gündem , T. Gunji , H. Hamagaki , J. W. Harris , P. Hauer , E. Hellbär , H. Helstrup , A. Herghelegiu , H. D. Hernandez Herrera , Y. Hou , C. Hughes , M. Ivanov , J. Jäger , Y. Ji , J. Jung , M. Jung , B. Ketzer , S. Kirsch , M. Kleiner , A. G. Knospe , M. Korwieser , M. Kowalski , L. Lautner , M. Lesch , C. Lippmann , G. Mantzaridis , R. D. Majka , A. Marin , C. Markert , S. Masciocchi , A. Matyja , M. Meres , D. L. Mihaylov , D. Miśkowiec , R. H. Munzer , H. Murakami , K. Münning , A. Nassirpour , C. Nattrass , B. S. Nielsen , W. A. V. Noije , A. C. Oliveira Da Silva , A. Oskarsson , K. Oyama , L. Österman , Y. Pachmayer , G. Paić , M. Petris , M. Petrovici , M. Planinic , J. Rasson , K. F. Read , A. Rehman , R. Renfordt , A. Riedel , K. Røed , D. Röhrich , E. Rubio , A. Rusu , S. Sadhu , B. C. S. Sanches , J. Schambach , A. Schmah , C. Schmidt , A. Schmier , K. Schweda , D. Sekihata , D. Silvermyr , B. Sitar , N. Smirnov , H. K. Soltveit , C. Sonnabend , S. P. Sorensen , J. Stachel , L. Šerkšnytė , G. Tambave , K. Ullaland , B. Ulukutlu , D. Varga , O. Vazquez Rueda , B. Voss , J. Wiechula , B. Windelband , J. Wilkinson , J. Witte , A. Yadav , F. Zanone , S. Zhu

The ALICE experiment will run with continuous readout at interaction rates of up to 50 kHz in Pb-Pb collisions during Run 3 of the LHC. In order to achieve this goal, a new data processing scheme and software are developed. This scheme…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-18 Ernst Hellbär

At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, atomic nuclei are collided at ultra-relativistic energies. Many final-state particles are produced in each collision and their properties are measured by the ALICE detector. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-11 ALICE Collaboration

ALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of Heavy-Ion collisions. Many observables related to the properties of the medium created in such collisions rely on the excellent capabilities of the detector in terms of Particle…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-09-03 Chiara Zampolli

The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proposes major detector upgrades to fully exploit the increase of the luminosity of the LHC in RUN~3 and to extend the physics reach for rare probes at low transverse momentum. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Taku Gunji

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) is a detector designed to exploit the physics potential of nucleus-nucleus interactions at the LHC. Being a general purpose experiment, it will allow a comprehensive study of hadrons, electrons, muons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 C. Lourenco

ALICE is one of the four experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) specifically designed to study nuclear matter at extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. The LHC Run 3 started officially in July 2022 with proton-proton…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-02 Ivan Ravasenga

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

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is the heavy-ion detector designed to study the strongly interacting state of matter realized in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A major upgrade of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Pascal Boeschoten , Filippo Costa

ALICE is the heavy-ion experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The experiment continuously took data during the first physics campaign of the machine from fall 2009 until early 2013, using proton and lead-ion beams. In this paper we…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-08-13 ALICE Collaboration

Due to the increase of data volumes expected for the LHC Run 3 and Run 4, the ALICE Collaboration designed and deployed a new, energy efficient, computing model to run Online and Offline O$^2$ data processing within a single software…

In LHC Run 3, ALICE will increase the data taking rate significantly, from an approximately 1 kHz trigger readout in minimum-bias Pb--Pb collisions to a 50 kHz continuous readout rate. The reconstruction strategy of the online-offline…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-29 David Rohr

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