ALICE is optimized to study collisions of nuclei
at ultra-relativistic energies.
It consists of a large pixel-based tracking system
covering eight units of pseudorapidity
complemented by multiple systems for particle identification,
including silicon time-of-flight layers,
a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector,
a muon identification system,
and forward detectors for event characterisation.
The main new studies focus on beauty hadrons,
multi-charm baryons
and charm-charm correlations,
as as well as on precise measurements
to probe the mechanism of chiral-symmetry restoration
and the time-evolution of the QGP temperature.
ALICE 3 can uniquely contribute to hadronic physics
with femtoscopic studies
of the interaction potentials
between charm mesons
and searches for nuclei with charm,
and to fundamental physics, with tests of the Low theorem
for ultra-soft photon emission.
The LHC will operate
until the Long Shut Down 3,
starting in July 2026.
During the LS3, the LHC will undergo
a major upgrade
in order to increase its luminosity,
i.e. the number of collisions.
The upgraded machine, the High-Luminosity LHC,
which is due to restart mid-30 —
will run at least another decade.
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May 20, 2026 at 8:26 PM UTC
ALICE is optimized to study collisions of nuclei
at ultra-relativistic energies.
It consists of a large pixel-based tracking system
covering eight units of pseudorapidity
complemented by multiple systems for particle identification,
including silicon time-of-flight layers,
a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector,
a muon identification system,
and forward detectors for event characterisation.
The main new studies focus on beauty hadrons,
multi-charm baryons
and charm-charm correlations,
as as well as on precise measurements
to probe the mechanism of chiral-symmetry restoration
and the time-evolution of the QGP temperature.
ALICE 3 can uniquely contribute to hadronic physics
with femtoscopic studies
of the interaction potentials
between charm mesons
and searches for nuclei with charm,
and to fundamental physics, with tests of the Low theorem
for ultra-soft photon emission.
The LHC will operate
until the Long Shut Down 3,
starting in July 2026.
During the LS3, the LHC will undergo
a major upgrade
in order to increase its luminosity,
i.e. the number of collisions.
The upgraded machine, the High-Luminosity LHC,
which is due to restart mid-30 —
will run at least another decade.
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