ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of seven detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. The other six are: ATLAS, CMS, TOTEM, LHCb, LHCf and MoEDAL. ALICE is optimized to study heavy ion collisions. Pb-Pb nuclei collisions will be studied at a centre of mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleus. The resulting temperature and energy density are expected to be large enough to generate a quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter wherein quarks and gluons are deconfined.
Read more about A Large Ion Collider Experiment: Inner Tracking System, Time Projection Chamber, Transition Radiation Detector, Time of Flight, Photon Spectrometer, High Momentum Particle Identification Detector, Muon Spectrometer, Forward Multiplicity Detectors, Electro-Magnetic Calorimeter, August 2012 Highest Temperature Experiments
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