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ALICE experiment
A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is one of the nine detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is designed to study the conditions thought to have existed immediately after the Big Bang, which it does by measuring the properties of quark–gluon plasma.
ALICE is designed to study high-energy collisions between lead nuclei. These collisions mimic the extreme temperature and energy density that would have been found in the fractions of a second after the Big Bang. This is because they form a quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter in which quarks and gluons are unbound.
The results obtained by ALICE support the understanding of complex phenomena such as color confinement, chiral symmetry restoration, and how elementary particles interact. These results guide research in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the study of the strong force. Recreating the quark–gluon plasma and understanding its evolution are expected to shed light on how matter is organized, the mechanisms that confine quarks and gluons, and the nature of the strong force and the role it plays in generating most of the mass of ordinary matter.
QCD predicts that at sufficiently high energy densities, a phase transition will occur within conventional hadronic matter, where quarks, which are confined within nuclear particles, transition into a quark–gluon plasma where they are not. The reverse of this transition is believed to have occurred when the universe was approximately one microsecond (10−6 seconds) old, and transitions like it may still occur in the centers of collapsing neutron stars and other astrophysical objects.
The idea of building a dedicated heavy-ion detector for the LHC was first discussed at the meeting "Towards the LHC experimental Programme", which was hosted in Évian, France, in March 1992. This meeting led to the creation of ALICE, along with other LHC programs such as ATLAS and CMS. After the Évian meeting, the ALICE collaboration was formed, and it submitted a Letter of Intent in 1993.
ALICE was first proposed as a central detector in 1993. This was later complemented by an additional forward muon spectrometer designed in 1995. In 1997, the LHC Committee allowed ALICE to proceed towards final design and construction.
The first 10 years of development were spent on an extensive research and development (R&D) effort. As with other LHC experiments, the challenges of heavy-ion physics at the LHC required advances in existing technology.
The detector was designed to be capable of measuring a wide range of signals, with flexibility for additions and modifications as new research avenues and possibilities emerged. Various major detection systems have been added over the years, including the muon spectrometer in 1995, the transition radiation detectors in 1999, and a large jet calorimeter in 2007.[citation needed]
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ALICE experiment
A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is one of the nine detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is designed to study the conditions thought to have existed immediately after the Big Bang, which it does by measuring the properties of quark–gluon plasma.
ALICE is designed to study high-energy collisions between lead nuclei. These collisions mimic the extreme temperature and energy density that would have been found in the fractions of a second after the Big Bang. This is because they form a quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter in which quarks and gluons are unbound.
The results obtained by ALICE support the understanding of complex phenomena such as color confinement, chiral symmetry restoration, and how elementary particles interact. These results guide research in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the study of the strong force. Recreating the quark–gluon plasma and understanding its evolution are expected to shed light on how matter is organized, the mechanisms that confine quarks and gluons, and the nature of the strong force and the role it plays in generating most of the mass of ordinary matter.
QCD predicts that at sufficiently high energy densities, a phase transition will occur within conventional hadronic matter, where quarks, which are confined within nuclear particles, transition into a quark–gluon plasma where they are not. The reverse of this transition is believed to have occurred when the universe was approximately one microsecond (10−6 seconds) old, and transitions like it may still occur in the centers of collapsing neutron stars and other astrophysical objects.
The idea of building a dedicated heavy-ion detector for the LHC was first discussed at the meeting "Towards the LHC experimental Programme", which was hosted in Évian, France, in March 1992. This meeting led to the creation of ALICE, along with other LHC programs such as ATLAS and CMS. After the Évian meeting, the ALICE collaboration was formed, and it submitted a Letter of Intent in 1993.
ALICE was first proposed as a central detector in 1993. This was later complemented by an additional forward muon spectrometer designed in 1995. In 1997, the LHC Committee allowed ALICE to proceed towards final design and construction.
The first 10 years of development were spent on an extensive research and development (R&D) effort. As with other LHC experiments, the challenges of heavy-ion physics at the LHC required advances in existing technology.
The detector was designed to be capable of measuring a wide range of signals, with flexibility for additions and modifications as new research avenues and possibilities emerged. Various major detection systems have been added over the years, including the muon spectrometer in 1995, the transition radiation detectors in 1999, and a large jet calorimeter in 2007.[citation needed]