Photos: A behind-the-scenes look at CERN’s ALICE
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ALICE
ALICE
Recently, after a more than two-year hiatus, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began delivering data again. Let’s take a look at one of its most important experiments, ALICE.
ALICE stands for A Large Ion Collider Experiment.
Integration of the inner tracker
Integration of the inner tracker
ALICE works on detecting quark-gluon plasma, which is thought to be a result of the Big Bang.
Scientists work on the inner tracker
Scientists work on the inner tracker
Members of the team that collaborated on ALICE
Members of the team that collaborated on ALICE
The ALICE collaboration was formed and its letter of intent was written in 1993.
ALICE Cavern
ALICE Cavern
This area is known as the ALICE cavern. DCal modules were installed to extend the measurement capabilities of ALICE.
Another look at the Inner Tracking System
Another look at the Inner Tracking System
The Inner Tracking System consists of three layers of detectors: ITS Pixels, ITS Drift, and ITS Strips. The system tracks the movement of specific particles.
The field cage
The field cage
Here is an interior look at the field cage of ALICE.
The photon spectrometer
The photon spectrometer
Here scientists insert crystals into the photo spectrometer, which measures photons emerging from the particle collision.
The time projection chamber
The time projection chamber
The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) in ALICE is filled with gas to detect and track particles.
A technician works on gas pipes
A technician works on gas pipes
