National Institute for Subatomic Physics

ALICE: The quark-gluon plasma

Nikhef is a member of the ALICE experiment, one of the detectors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. More than 1000 scientists try to find the answers to the many questions surrounding quarks; the elementary particles that are confined in protons and neutrons.
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Program leader of the ALICE-program at Nikhef is Thomas Peitzmann

Copyright: CERN. Events recorded by the ALICE experiment from the first lead ion collisions, at a centre-of-mass energy of 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair.