Status of the ALICE experiment at the LHC

Journal Article · Thu Nov 13 04:00:00 EST 2008 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3040261· OSTI ID:21254899

Herrera Corral, G ^[1]

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1. Departamento de Fisica, Cinvestav, P.O. 14 740, Mexico 07300, D.F. (Mexico)

The Large Hadron Collider will provide soon, beams of protons and collisions at high energy to the experiments. ALICE stands for A Large Ion Collider Experiment. It is one of the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. ALICE will be dedicated to the study of heavy ion collisions. The main goal of ALICE is the observation of the transition of ordinary matter into a plasma of quarks and gluons. ALICE consists of 16 systems of detection. Two of them were designed and constructed in Mexico: i) The V0A detector, located at 3.2 mts. from the interaction point and ii) The cosmic ray detector on the top of the magnet. After a quick review of the LHC and the ALICE experiment we will focus on the description of these systems.

• OSTI ID: 21254899
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1077; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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