ALICE
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ALICE is a major particle physics experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider dedicated to studying heavy-ion collisions and the properties of quark–gluon plasma.
Observed surface forms (2)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ALICE Collaboration Board | 1 |
| ALICE physics program | 1 |
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Large Hadron Collider experiment
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detector ⓘ particle physics experiment ⓘ |
| acronymFor | A Large Ion Collider Experiment ⓘ |
| collaborationCountries | over 30 countries ⓘ |
| collaborationSize | over 1000 scientists ⓘ |
| collider | Large Hadron Collider ⓘ |
| collisionEnergyRange | up to several TeV per nucleon pair ⓘ |
| collisionSystem |
lead–lead
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proton–lead ⓘ proton–proton ⓘ |
| constructionStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| dataType |
heavy-ion collision data
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proton–nucleus collision data ⓘ proton–proton collision data ⓘ |
| designOptimizedFor | high-multiplicity heavy-ion events ⓘ |
| fullName | A Large Ion Collider Experiment ⓘ |
| governingBody |
ALICE
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
ALICE Collaboration Board
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| hasSubsystem |
Electromagnetic Calorimeter
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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 ⓘ |
| hostOrganization | CERN ⓘ |
| locatedAt |
CERN
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Large Hadron Collider ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Geneva metropolitan area
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surface form:
Geneva region
Switzerland ⓘ |
| primaryGoal | study heavy-ion collisions ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
QCD phase diagram
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charm and beauty quarks in heavy-ion collisions ⓘ collective flow in heavy-ion collisions ⓘ hadronization ⓘ jet quenching ⓘ quark–gluon plasma ⓘ small-system collectivity in proton–nucleus and proton–proton collisions ⓘ strangeness enhancement ⓘ strongly interacting matter at extreme energy density ⓘ |
| scientificDiscipline |
high-energy nuclear physics
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quantum chromodynamics ⓘ |
| startOfDataTaking | 2009 ⓘ |
| upgradeFeature |
continuous readout capability
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improved Inner Tracking System with silicon pixel detectors ⓘ upgraded Time Projection Chamber readout ⓘ |
| upgradeProgram | Run 3 and Run 4 upgrades ⓘ |
Referenced by (11)
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this entity surface form:
ALICE physics program
this entity surface form:
ALICE Collaboration Board