Welcome to the ALICE collaboration

Our mission

Welcome to the ALICE website The ALICE Collaboration has built a dedicated heavy-ion detector to exploit the unique physics potential of nucleus-nucleus interactions at LHC energies. Our aim is to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma, is expected. The existence of such a phase and its properties are key issues in QCD for the understanding of confinement and of chiral-symmetry restoration. For this purpose, we are carrying out a comprehensive study of the hadrons, electrons, muons and photons produced in the collision of heavy nuclei. Alice is also studying proton-proton collisions both as a comparison with lead-lead collisions and in physics areas where ALICE is competitive with other LHC experiments.

Latest ALICE Submissions

Nuclear modification factor of high pT heavy-flavour decay electrons in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV	arXiv
Anomalous evolution of the near-side jet peak shape in Pb--Pb collisions at sqrt(snn) = 2.76 TeV (PRL)	arXiv
Evolution of the longitudinal and azimuthal structure of the near-side jet peak in Pb--Pb collisions at snn = 2.76 TeV (PRC)	arXiv
Measurement of electrons from beauty-hadron decays in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC	arXiv
Jet-like correlations with neutral pion triggers in pp and central Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV	arXiv
J/ψ suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 TeV	arXiv
Multiplicity-dependent enhancement of strange and multi-strange hadron production in proton-proton collisions at √s = 7 TeV	arXiv
Higher harmonic flow coefficients of identified hadrons in Pb--Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN)=2.76TeV	arXiv
Elliptic flow of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decay in Pb--Pb at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$ = 2.76 TeV with ALICE	arXiv
Measurement of azimuthal correlations of D mesons and charged particles in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}$=7 TeV and p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=5.02 TeV	arXiv