Status of the ALICE experiment at the LHC
Pietro Antonioli (for the ALICE Collaboration)
TL;DR
The paper reviews the current status of the ALICE experiment at the LHC, highlighting its data collection progress, detector performance, and readiness for heavy ion collision runs, with initial results from proton-proton collisions.
Contribution
It provides an update on ALICE's operational status, detector performance, and initial physics results ahead of the first lead-lead collision run.
Findings
Successful collection of proton-proton collision data since 2009
Performance assessment of detector sub-systems
Preparation for upcoming lead-lead collision run
Abstract
The status of the ALICE experiment is presented. ALICE is the LHC experiment devoted to heavy ion collisions. Preparing for the first lead-lead run, foreseen in November 2010, ALICE is successfully collecting data in proton-proton collisions at the LHC since November 2009, exploiting the charateristics of the detector for its proton-proton physics program. First results are briefly reviewed with an emphasis on performance of its detector sub-systems.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHigh-Energy Particle Collisions Research · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions