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.
ALICE works on detecting quark-gluon plasma, which is thought to be a result of the Big Bang.
The ALICE collaboration was formed and its letter of intent was written in 1993.
This area is known as the ALICE cavern. DCal modules were installed to extend the measurement capabilities of ALICE.
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.
Here is an interior look at the field cage of ALICE.
Here scientists insert crystals into the photo spectrometer, which measures photons emerging from the particle collision.
The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) in ALICE is filled with gas to detect and track particles.
Conner is a former Senior Editor for TechRepublic. He is now a Senior Research Analyst at 451 Research.
