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.

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ALICE Collaboration Board 1
ALICE physics program 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Large Hadron Collider experiment
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
proton–lead
proton–proton
constructionStart 1990s
dataType heavy-ion collision data
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
surface form: ALICE Collaboration Board
hasSubsystem 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
hostOrganization CERN
locatedAt CERN
Large Hadron Collider
locatedIn Geneva metropolitan area
surface form: Geneva region

Switzerland
primaryGoal study heavy-ion collisions
researchFocus QCD phase diagram
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
quantum chromodynamics
startOfDataTaking 2009
upgradeFeature continuous readout capability
improved Inner Tracking System with silicon pixel detectors
upgraded Time Projection Chamber readout
upgradeProgram Run 3 and Run 4 upgrades

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ALICE experiment acronym ALICE
CMS collaboratesWith ALICE
this entity surface form: ALICE physics program
ALICE governingBody ALICE self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: ALICE Collaboration Board
CERN hostsExperiment ALICE
LIU supportsExperiments ALICE