ALICE, the heavy ion experiment at LHC

TL;DR

ALICE is a CERN experiment at the LHC designed to study quark-gluon plasma formation through relativistic heavy-ion collisions, aiming to explore the properties of hot, dense strongly interacting matter.

Contribution

This paper introduces the ALICE experiment and its focus on investigating quark-gluon plasma at unprecedented energy levels at the LHC.

Findings

Production of a hotter, larger quark-gluon plasma at LHC energies

Detection of multiple probes of high-temperature strongly interacting matter

Enhanced understanding of QGP properties in heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

ALICE, A Large Ion Collider Experiment, is the future Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment at CERN devoted to the physics of Quantum Chromo-thermo-dynamics. Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (HIC) at LHC aim at the production of a plasma of quarks and gluons (QGP). This plasma is expected to be much hotter, bigger and longer than in previous HIC experiments at lower center-of-mass energies. In the ALICE experiment, the ephemeral QGP created during the first stages of the HIC will be studied by the concomitant detection of most of the probes of high temperature strongly interacting matter.