Heavy ion physics with the ALICE experiment at LHC
Chiara Zampolli (1) (for the ALICE Collaboration) ((1) Museo Storico, della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Rome, and INFN, Bologna,, and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Universita' di Bologna)
TL;DR
This paper describes the ALICE experiment at CERN's LHC, focusing on its detector capabilities and expected performance in studying heavy ion physics phenomena.
Contribution
It introduces the ALICE detector and evaluates its expected performance for key heavy ion physics research topics.
Findings
Detailed description of the ALICE detector
Assessment of detector performance for physics measurements
Preparation for heavy ion collision analysis
Abstract
ALICE is the experiment at the LHC collider at CERN dedicated to heavy ion physics. In this report, the ALICE detector will be presented, together with its expected performance as far as some selected physics topics are concerned.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions