Heavy-ion physics with the ALICE experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1961, 2012, Pages 917-932

  Schukraft, J ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ALICE; Heavy ion physics; Large Hadron Collider; Quark gluon plasma

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HADRONS; HEAVY IONS; LEAD; MICROSTRIP DEVICES; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY;

ALICE; FIRST YEAR; GLOBAL PROPERTIES; HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS; HIGH-DENSITY; INITIAL OPERATION; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; LARGE HADRON COLLIDER LHC; LARGE ION COLLIDER EXPERIMENTS; LOWER ENERGIES; NUCLEUS-NUCLEUS REACTIONS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PROTON COLLISIONS; QUARK-GLUON PLASMA;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 84856528071     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0469     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. Heinz, U. & Jacob, M. 2000 Evidence for a new state of matter: an assessment of the results from the CERN lead beam program. (http://arxiv.org/ abs/nucl-th/0002042).
2. The Brahms, Phenix, Phobos, and Star Collaborations. 2005 The first three years of RHIC operation. Nucl. Phys. A 757, 1-283.
3. Schukraft, J. 2006 The future of high energy nuclear physics in Europe. (http://arxiv.org/abs/nucl-ex/0602014)
4. Schukraft, J. 2010 Status and initial operation of ALICE. (http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4348)
5. Schukraft, J. & Fabjan, C. 2009 The large hadron collider: a marvel technology (ed. L. Evans). Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL. See http://www.slac. stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?irn=8688672.
6. Carminati, F., Foka, P., Giubellino, P., Morsch, A., Paic, G., Revol1, J.-P., Safarík, K., Schutz, Y. & Wiedemann, U. A. 2004 ALICE: physics performance report, volume I. J. Phys. G 30, 1517. (doi:10.1088/0954-3899/30/ 11/001) (Pubitemid 39525948)
7. Alessandro, B. et al. 2006 ALICE: physics performance report, volume II. J. Phys. G 32, 1295-2040. (doi:10.1088/0954-3899/32/10/001) (Pubitemid 44538373)
8. Aamodt, K. et al. 2008 The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC. J. Instrum. 3, S08002. (doi:10.1088/1748-0221/3/08/S08002)
9. Aamodt, K. et al. 2010 First proton-proton collisions at the LHC as observed with the ALICE detector: measurement of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density at √s =900 GeV. Eur. Phys. J. C 65, 111-125. (doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1227-4)
10. LHC status reports, CERN. 2009 See http://indico.cern.ch/ conferenceDisplay.py?confId=76398.
11. Schukraft, J. 2010 ALICE status and highlights. (http://arxiv.org/abs/ 1012.4350)
12. Aamodt, K. et al. 2010 Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton-proton collisions at √s =7 TeV with ALICE at LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C 68, 345-354. (doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1350-2)
13. Aamodt, K. et al. 2010 Charged-particle multiplicity measurement in proton-proton collisions at √s =0.9 and 2.36TeV with ALICE at LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C 68, 89-108. (doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-010-1339-x)
14. Aamodt, K. et al. 2010 Transverse momentum spectra of charged particles in proton-proton collisions at √s =900 GeV with ALICE at the LHC. Phys. Lett. B 693, 53-68. (doi:10.1016/Φ.physletb.2010.08.026)
15. Aamodt, K. et al. 2011 Production of pions, kaons and protons in pp collisions at √s =900 GeV with ALICE at the LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1655. (doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1655-9)
16. Aamodt, K. et al. 2011 Strange particle production in proton-proton collisions at √s =0.9 TeV with ALICE at the LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C 71, 1594. (doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1594-5)
17. Aamodt, K. et al. 2010 Midrapidity antiproton-to-proton ratio in pp collisions at √s =0.9 and 7TeV measured by the ALICE experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 072002. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.072002)
18. Schukraft, J. 2011 First results from the ALICE experiment at the LHC. Nucl. Phys. A 862-863, 78-84. (doi:10.1016/Φ.nuclphysa.2011.05.023)
19. Armesto, N. et al. 2008 Heavy-ion collisions at the LHC-Last call for predictions. J. Phys. G 35, 054001. (doi:10.1088/0954-3899/35/5/054001).
20. Aamodt, K. et al. 2010 Charged-particle multiplicity density at midrapidity in central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN =2.76TeV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252301. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252301)
21. Aamodt, K. et al. 2010 Elliptic flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN =2.76TeV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 252302. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.252302)
22. Aamodt, K. et al. 2011 Centrality dependence of the charged-particle multiplicity density at midrapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN =2.76TeV. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 032301. (doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.032301)
23. Aamodt, K. et al. 2011 Two-pion Bose-Einstein correlations in central Pb-Pb collisions at sNN =2.76TeV. Phys. Lett. B 696, 328-337. (doi:10.1016/Φ.physletb.2010.12.053)
24. Aamodt, K. et al. 2011 Suppression of charged particle production at large transverse momentum in central Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN =2.76TeV. Phys. Lett. B 696, 30-39. (doi:10.1016/Φ.physletb.2010.12.020)