The ALICE experiment: a journey through QCD

Understand

The ALICE experiment was proposed in 1993, to study strongly-interacting matter at extreme energy densities and temperatures.

• This proposal entailed a comprehensive investigation of nuclear collisions at the LHC.
• Its physics programme initially focused on the determination of the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, created in such collisions.
• The ALICE physics programme has been extended to cover a broader ensemble of observables related to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions.