Administrative matters: the French Protocole d’accueil

Words from the spokesperson

by Paolo Giubellino. Published: 17 January 2011

Dear Friends,

Let me take the opportunity of this first "ALICE Matters" of the year to wish to you all a fantastic 2011! The year which has just closed was a memorable one, with ALICE going through a series of successes which climaxed, at the very end of the year, with the heavy ion run and the magnificent burst of papers which followed. Yet it is already time to look at new challenges!

‘ALICE and the soup of quarks and gluons’ cartoon now in Dutch

News from the run

by Daniele De Gruttola. Published: 30 April 2011

After the intermediate energy proton-proton run, at 2.76 TeV, performed very successfully in March - followed by a technical stop - ALICE started, in April, an important period of tests and calibrations and is now back to doing physics.

News from the run

by Sabyasachi Siddhanta. Published: 13 May 2011

After a successful period of tests and calibrations in April, ALICE started taking data with minimum bias trigger at 3.5 TeV on 25 April. The LHC delivered stable beams up to 3 May and ALICE collected more than 200 million events.

Charm mesons suppression in lead-lead collisions

by Andrea Dainese. Published: 27 June 2011

The ALICE experiment has measured the production of the charmed mesons D0 and D+ in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC. In central (head-on) collisions, a large suppression with respect to expectations is observed at large transverse momentum pt, indicating that charm quarks undergo a strong energy loss in the hot and dense state of QCD matter formed in these collisions. D meson suppression is measured for the first time directly in central nucleus-nucleus collisions.

High energy physics captivates public at Royal Society exhibition

Notice of PhD and Postdoctoral positions with Niels Bohr Institute

Focus on : Armenuhi Abramyan and Narine Manukyan

Autumn at ALICE

by Polly Bennett. Published: 28 October 2011

Autumn heralds some major events for ALICE. Firstly the LHC accelerator is about to complete its proton-proton programme for the year. This makes way for ALICE week and the start of the heavy ion run on the 14th November. Federico Ronchetti, period run coordinator for October, sums up this month’s results and preparations for the lead-lead collisions. Secondly is the proton-lead collisions test, with which it is hoped we will understand better the processes during lead ion collisions. Amy Dusto explores this issue in her article ‘Accelerator Soup’.

Another event with ALICE this autumn is a change in the ALICE Matters editorial team with the arrival of our new journalist Polly Bennett. ALICE Matters remains a base for the community of the ALICE collaboration: celebrating people, news, results, changes and the daily life...

A Few Words from ALICE Spokesperson Paolo Giubellino

'Elliptic flow' Paper Has Highest Number of Citations

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Visits ALICE

Industrial Chemistry Students Visit CERN

by Polly Bennett. Published: 16 March 2012

In December, 53 students from the Faculty of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Bologna, Italy, visited CERN for 3 days as part of their final year seminar programme. ALICE’s Rosario Nania and Despina Hatzifotiadou, from INFN Bologna, organised the visit. “They wanted to visit CERN because of the media popularity in the last few years and because of the technical developments achieved here,” Rosario explained.

Flagship ALICE Images Now Available on CDS

by Polly Bennett. Published: 27 April 2012

The latest flagship images of the ALICE experiment are now available on the CERN Document Server (CDS). Photographer Antonio Saba visited ALICE in February to update the stock of still images used for ALICE communications material. Photographs now illustrate the experiment with the newly installed TRD and EMCal modules.

Antonio Saba


My Journey Into Particle Physics: Chiara Bianchin

by Chiara Bianchin. Published: 27 April 2012

On 21st March 2012 I defended my PhD at the Physics Department “Galileo Galilei” of Padova University, Italy. My thesis title was Charm production at the LHC via D0 → Kπ reconstruction in ALICE: cross section in pp collisions and first flow measurement in Pb-Pb collisions. All members of the Padova ALICE group attended to support myself and Davide, the other PhD student of the group defending at the same time. Two ALICE members, Anton Andronic and Raimond Snellings, were part of the jury, as experts.