A Large Ion Collider Experiment
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A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is a major detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter and quark–gluon plasma created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions.
Observed surface forms (3)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| LHC heavy-ion physics programme | 0 | 2 |
| ALICE experiment at the LHC | 0 | 1 |
| LHC heavy-ion program | 0 | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Large Hadron Collider experiment
→
detector → particle physics experiment → |
| abbreviation | ALICE → |
| collaborationCountries | over 30 countries → |
| collaborationSize | over 1000 scientists → |
| collisionEnergyRange | up to several TeV per nucleon pair → |
| constructionStartDate | 1997 → |
| country | Switzerland → |
| dataTakingStartDate | 2010 → |
| designedFor |
high-multiplicity events
→
lead–lead collisions → |
| focusesOn |
QCD at high energy density
→
charm and beauty quarks in heavy-ion collisions → collective flow phenomena → hadronization processes → jet quenching → properties of quark–gluon plasma → quarkonia suppression and regeneration → strangeness enhancement → |
| governingBody | ALICE Collaboration Board → |
| hasSubsystem |
ALICE experiment
→
surface form:
ALICE Diffractive detector
Electromagnetic Calorimeter → Forward Multiplicity Detector → Inner Tracking System → Muon Spectrometer → Photon Spectrometer → T0 detector → Time Projection Chamber → Time-Of-Flight detector → Transition Radiation Detector → V0 detector → Zero Degree Calorimeters →
surface form:
Zero Degree Calorimeter
|
| hostOrganization | CERN → |
| locatedAt | Large Hadron Collider → |
| locatedIn |
CERN
→
Meyrin →
surface form:
Meyrin, Switzerland
|
| operatesAt | LHC interaction point 2 → |
| partOf |
Large Hadron Collider
→
surface form:
Large Hadron Collider program
|
| primaryPurpose |
study quark–gluon plasma
→
study strongly interacting matter → |
| studies |
heavy-ion collisions
→
proton–nucleus collisions → proton–proton collisions → |
| technology |
ring-imaging Cherenkov detection (in TRD)
→
silicon tracking detectors → time projection chamber gas detector → |
| upgradeProgram | Run 3 and Run 4 detector upgrades → |
| website | https://alice.cern → |
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
LHC heavy-ion program
this entity surface form:
ALICE experiment at the LHC
this entity surface form:
LHC heavy-ion physics programme