Quark-Gluon Plasma Laboratory

Jul 02, 2020

CERN's ALICE collaboration reports new results on a charming messenger of quarks and gluon plasma

The 2020 edition of the Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP) took place from 25 to 30 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference, originally planned to be hosted in Paris, was held entirely online.

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Jun 08, 2020

Chips on a ladder: end of production for ALICE-MFT

After more than four years of research and development, design and manufacturing work, the MFT (Muon Forward Tracker), a new detector that will equip the ALICE experiment at the LHC, has seen its construction finalized and is currently under commissioning at CERN.

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Chips on a ladder: end of production for ALICE-MFT

Jan 17, 2020

Bottomonium elliptic-flow no-show

A few microseconds after the Big Bang the Univers may have gone through a deconfined state of quarks and gluons, the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). The QGP can be recreated in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. In particular at the LHC at CERN, the QGP behaves like a fluid.

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May 18, 2018

The intriguing charm flow

In ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions at CERN's LHC accelerator, a new state of matter is formed: the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). It is a kind of very dense and hot "soup" containing only the most elementary constituents of matter. A few microseconds after the Big Bang, the Universe would have passed through this state.

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Apr 25, 2017

Can Quark-Gluon Plasma Be Produced by Proton Collisions?

According to the ALICE collaboration at LHC (CERN), certain rare proton collisions have properties that are similar to those of a quark–gluon plasma. In the past, these properties had been observed for collisions of heavy nuclei only.

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Nuclear Physics Division

Institute of Research into the Fundamental Laws of the Universe